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Typical of the Institute is the Institute Advisory Committee which meets once or twice a year to see what is going on. The Committee consists of such luminaries as Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass), Jacqueline Onassis, Averill Harriman (D-N.Y.), Sen. John Cooper (R-Ken.), Sen. Henry Jackson (D-Wash.), Lord Harlech, Vernon Jordon of the Urban League. The Advisory Committee has little to do with the operations of the Institute and rarely criticizes its activities. The rationale for its existence seems obscure, but as May explained, "They're awise people...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska--Vice President Spiro Agnew has criticized Sen. George McGovern's amnesty policy and called for "tough" treatment of Americans who fled the country to avoid fighting in Vietnam. Agnew told a Republican fund-raising cocktail party that the Democratic nominee's proposal "makes utterly no sense...
Daley said he had not been in touch with Sen. McGovern since McGovern was nominated for the presidency at the convention...
...South Dakota senator will be accompanied by a small personal staff. Starting later this week, his top political advisors, financial planners, and his running mate, Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton of Missouri, will come to the lodge for conferences...
Indeed, the decision speaks for itself: it and another limiting Congressional immunity in the case of Sen. Mike Gravel (D-Ala.) and his release of the Pentagon Papers, intone a tragic shift of the Supreme Court to a Nixonesque majority. The days of the Warren Court, of sweeping judicial reform, of the highest regard for civil liberty and human dignity, are passing us by as President Nixon assures a conservative majority. Even the Court's decision outlawing the death penalty--based largely on its inconsistent application--fuels a longing for an Abe Fortas or a Homer Thornberry. As time goes...