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Belatedly, his aides became aware that the approach was not working. They decided that Muskie must get more specific and tough. Muskie thereupon stoutly backed Florida Governor Reubin Askew's stand against the antibusing forces, opposed the space shuttle-and lost votes heavily on both issues. He bluntly attacked Wallace, calling him "a worn-out demagogue," charging that a vote for Wallace was "a vote for fear." The "message" that Floridians must send out, he argued, ought not to be "that this is where the New South died; that the party of John F. Kennedy speaks with the voice...
...transport 700 men. The conception was perhaps too grandiose for the times-the plane was only 11 ft. shorter than a 747. After the war, Maine's Senator Owen Brewster demanded to know why Hughes had spent $18 million in Government funds and produced no flyable planes. Thereupon Hughes flew his monstrosity for a mile at 70 ft. over Los Angeles Harbor, the only time it was ever in the air. Today, at an annual rental of $46,000, the plane is hangared under guard on the Long Beach waterfront, a monument to Hughes' lifelong reluctance to admit failure...
...more Soviet TU-16 "Badger" bombers had arrived in Cairo and that they were capable of carrying air-to-ground Kennel missiles with a range of 50 miles. Washington maintained that in spite of these Badgers the Middle East arms balance had still not been upset. The Israelis thereupon complained that U.S. intelligence has erred on at least five prior occasions, including a failure to detect the initial Soviet missile movements into the Canal Zone when the ceasefire began last year...
...Voluntary" Deductions. Though forbidden to contribute to political campaigns, corporations give bonuses to officers who thereupon hand them over to a favored candidate. Or a corporation may donate supplies or the use of an airplane to a candidate. Labor unions are not allowed to contribute members' dues to campaigns, so they set up separate funds to finance candidates. The National Marine Engineers Beneficial Association hit on making its pensioners pay for political campaigns. Each month, $10 is "voluntarily" deducted from every pension check and put into a fund that has become the largest single contribution...
...speech that excoriated Nixon's basic sense of economic justice, AFL-CIO President George Meany had gloweringly shouted that "if the President of the United States doesn't want our membership on the Pay Board on our terms, he knows what he can do!" Nixon thereupon made the unexpected move of asking to reply in person. "I know exactly what I can do, and I am going to do it," he said. "We want the participation of all ... areas of the society. But whether we get that participation or not, it is my obligation as President to make...