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...existing plans to do so, means that the agency may pour some $7 billion of debentures and other financial paper onto the private bond market by mid-1967, driving interest rates up considerably. The resulting mortgage money will still be limited to FHA and VA loans, now so unpopular with builders that they account for only about 15% of this year's housing. Fannie Mae's aid to housing may thus be only half a remedy...
...them -- those who periodically succumb to the "change for the sake of change" mentality. The defeat of moderate Republican Robert Smylie in the Idaho gubernatorial primary by a Goldwaterite seems to have been caused by the issue of a fourth term the incumbent sought and the enactment of an unpopular state sales tax he pressed for, rather than the vitriolic campaign state party leaders waged against...
...There is no question in my mind that the Viet Nam war is unpopular largely because of television. People see the horrors and the misery of this war-burning villages, weeping mothers, maimed children. They see South Vietnamese troops manhandling Viet Cong suspects, and they see the more sordid aspects of Saigon night life." Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak put it more succinctly. "The U.S.," he said, "has completely lost the information war in Viet...
...just what he faced, beginning with the opposition of the state Democratic hierarchy. Though both candidates were prolabor and pro-civil rights, Soapy had been helping Negroes and laborers when Cavanagh was in short pants-and they knew it. Cavanagh's 1% city income tax in Detroit proved unpopular, and many Negroes were alienated when he toyed earlier this year with the idea of a "stop-and-frisk law" that would allow police to search suspicious persons. Then, too, there was Viet Nam. Though Cavanagh vaguely supported the Johnson Administration's policies, an image of the dove fluttered...
...program. Assisted by Chairman William Fulbright, who turned against his Foreign Relations Committee's own bill, an assortment of doves, hawks, fiscal conservatives, unreconstructed Lyndon haters and those who simply doubt that aid is what it used to be formed a strange alliance to gut the perennially unpopular economic aid appropriation...