Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Most important of all, the President had been in constant touch with Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills, the Arkansas Democrat who remains the keystone to passage of Johnson's proposed 10% surcharge in income taxes. Said Mills when the balance of payments program was made public: "I support it. Our situation is serious. We have to do something...
...Because the poor bear more children than the affluent, the proportion of needy minors is estimated to be increasing from 4.7% now to 5% in 1970. Therefore states will either have to make eligibility rules more stringent, reduce the load by other means, or produce the funds themselves to support the extra indigents...
...poorly. The ultimate goal would be to foster a pride and independence which would permit blacks to negotiate with whites as equals. Though generally pessimistic about the prospects for integration, Curle sees such a greater sense of black identity and confidence as a prerequisite. In support, he again points to the underdeveloped world, this time to Kenya. There, in the late 1950's bitter racial fighting preceded independence. But Kenya's new national dignity permitted the reconciliation of the British and their former colonials. And Jomo Kenyata, at first bitterly condemned by the British for leading the notorious Mau-Maus...
...will present anti-Johnson forces with an awkward dilemma. They will want to stress their unity with the nation's Negroes. But the primary concern of the Alabama and Mississippi Negroes coming to Chicago will not be to end the war or to dump Johnson. They will support Johnson, they will be repeating again and again that they support him, and they will be doing everything in their power to get inside the convention hall in order to cast ballots...
...Young Dems and the NAACP, on the other hand, stand an excellent chance of setting up a formidable delegation. It is probable that a number of powerful industrialists and Delta planters who favor President Johnson will lend their support to a challenge...