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There in the shadow of the ag and the columns by which Davis was sworn in an first president the Confederacy, the crowd heard almost the whole roster of civil rights describe the plight of the Negro and demand the demise of Jim Crow...
...Swore in an old friend, Tennessee's former Governor Buford Ellington, 57, as director of the Office of Emergency Planning. Ellington had already been sworn in once, but Johnson decided that his first oath taking had been insufficiently publicized, ordered another ceremony. The President announced that Ellington would also act as a liaison with state Governors, and that all 50 Governors will be invited to Washington soon for a conference "about the various problems that face...
...answer, in a sworn affidavit, was a flat no-but that was back on Dec. 16, 1963, when Jenkins was a top White House aide. Last week Jenkins answered again-and this time his no was a lot less than flat. He had meant on that other occasion that he had not known "of the specifics for the purchase of advertising." But "I did know Mr. Reynolds planned to purchase advertising time, and I have never asserted the contrary...
...President makes no secret of the fact that he is furious at leaks of any kind; because of them, he has postponed appointments, even changed programs. Members of his staff, sworn to silence on pain of presidential wrath, know better than to be seen chatting with a newsman. The press feud has culminated, noted Columnist Joe Alsop, in an "almost hysterical secretiveness which the Johnson Administration has been carrying to extremes quite unimagined in any previous American Government...
...provide federal funds matching state payments to pay for the premiums under existing private insurance plans of medical care. Like Kerr-Mills, it would set up a means test to determine whether elderly persons could afford their own medical care. Unlike Kerr-Mills, it would require only a simple sworn statement of inability to pay, not a full-scale welfare investigation...