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Crisis Unto Crisis. This was the situation faced by President Johnson. He had already ordered Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz to try to negotiate a strike postponement. Wirtz made little headway. Johnson hereupon summoned management and labor negotiators to the White House. There, in the Cabinet Room, he read a prepared statement: "Although this railroad crisis has gone on for over four years, it has now been brought to a crisis stage with less than 48 hours available for last-ditch collective bargaining. This does not give the bargaining process a fair chance. It does not give the country...
...People want to be responsible for others," Wirtz said, and government and law must orient themselves to this fundamental truth. He called the Peace Corps a successful response to this desire...
...Wirtz noted a trend to shift decision making "from the most representative parts of government to the least representative." Key decisions, he said, have moved from local responsibility to state, and are now moving to federal jurisdiction...
...judiciary, Wirtz concluded, is taking the most influential steps in America's really important problems, such as civil rights and reapportionment. "What is going on in this society that the body furthest removed from the people is doing the most innovating...
...Wirtz called for more education and better communication to help create a more publicly oriented society. He said that most of the public's information about important problems comes from a combination of 90-second news broadcasts and scanning the newspaper headlines...