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t A Boy and His Dpg Vagk-i - - FTP U.tl AMI NEW. hlamslh FslW. Ore gnu Tiwsdav. ttoxmhcr II. 11 Washington Window . . . Too Much Speculation On The Assassination It depends on how you say it! One source declares the recent entlinij of the stalemate on foreign aid in Congress as a victory for President Johnson. Another source terms It a passage of a foreign aid bill more palatable to the Amer ican people, hut a long way from the 4 !i billion originally asked for by the adminis tration. The fact remains thai the $U billion foreign aid bill which finally received Con gressional approval was a victory for the American people who are sick and tired of trying to buy friends abroad only to find out too late that they bought a road that goes nowhere or fattened the lining of some dictator's purse. Congress was acting on a mandate from the American people when it refused to pass 1he 4.5 billion foreign aid bill. The Senate sliced some fat off the measure, but it was the Mouse that had the courage to take the meat axe and chop it down to 2.8 billion. Also, the House had the courage to write in a provision denying government backing for credit loans on wheat sales to Itussia. For this they received a lambasting from (he Chief Executive, and thanks to Whjte House pressure were finally forced ' By WASHINGTON STAFF Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NBA) Ev eryone In Washington in look ing forward to President John son's first big press conference which will probably break all records (or attendance. Report ers are already dtcaminK ) tough questions to throw at him: " . . . How do you stand nn reducing oil depletion al lowances?" " . . . Will you appoint a woman to your cabinet?" " . . . Who Is your first choice as vice presidential run ning male In ltttM?" " . . , What will lie your policy on Cuba, which you didn't mention in your first ad dress to Confess?" " ... Is Hobby Kennedy suing to resign, and will A h e Kotlas succeed him as your at torney general?" nnd so on. In Johnson's lirst inlorm.il press conference with White House regular correspondents there were a couple of near bubbles. News was given out on iletense personnel eulbneks nnd ending tlie .DynaiSonr program More all Pentagon and private industry officials concerned had been fully notitied. Also Johnson barred televi sion and live radio. This binned the broadcasters and brougltt forth a demand lor equal time on I lie air. The OflW president is exud ed to make some changes trom the Kennedy-style press confer ence, ami he Is feeling his way. But he is such an experienced operator thai lie can be enunl ed on to have ready answers lor any embarrassing question that may he brought up. Renaming Cnpr Canaveral. Via., as Cape Kennedy ha slined up local city council and inspired this story: A visitor to tlie missile base clteoked in at a coastal resort motel and phoned his business contact lor an appointment. "Did you gel here all right?" asked the native. "Yes." replied the visitor, "I did just whal you (old me. I landed at Kennedy Airport, took a Kennedy cab down Kennedy Boulevard to the Kennedy Ho tel and here 1 am, remiy to in xpect the Kennedy Missile Cen ter." Sen. Jennings Randolph, P W. V., pointj out that the With Congress is a good deal like a sports car. Says Randolph: "It makes a lot of noise and costs a lot of money, but it can't pass anything." Paul H. Nitre, former ibiec lor of Hie Stale Department's policy planning staff, is the lat est experiment in the Pentagon game nf 'making the peg tit the hole." Newly named secre tary of tlie Navy. Nitre in (art h had no eperience al all in Foreign Aid Hassle into agreeing to the $3 billion figure and dropping the credit ban on wheat sales. From our viewpoint Congress is to be commended. We also feel that Congress is much more closely attuned to the wave length of the public than is the executive. In the cold light of logical reasoning, it's time we stopped kidding ourselves about spending ourselves rich and buckled down to trimming the budget to the point where it matches the expected income with a little left over to start paying off some of the mon strously high national debt. The foreign aid bill fight is just the preliminary, however. The main event will come off early in 1 964 when the Congress is pushed to enact a huge tax cut. It's apparent that Congress will refuse to do so until they get the federal budget for l!lli4. Indications are that il will he another deficit budget ranging up to $10 billion deficit or more. Add to this the asked-for $10 billion tax cut and you have deficit spending of a mag nitude that imperils the financial solvency of this government. Again, we say, it's about time that we demanded fiscal responsibility from not only the Chief Executive but all of our public servants from lop to bottom levels of government. WASHINGTON NOTEBOOK Newsmen Ready For LBJ tlie Navy or in any oilier branch of Hie armed services. The closes! he came to mili tary duly In World War It was as vice chairman of the Strate gic bombing Survey in 1!M4. Re fore that tie was director of the Older of the Coordinator of Inter-Amcricun Affnirs. He was brought into the Pentagon pri marily because he was an ex pert on foreign and economic affairs. On the other hand. Kenneth K. iHoLlru being talked up as a possible successor to Cy rus R. , Vance as secretary of Ihe Army is currently assist ant soorelary to the Navy. The telephone rang in the of fice of an aide to (Pennsylva nia's iov. William W. Scran ton. A man asked: "Is lie coming In see Ihe gov ernor?" The nkle was baffled: "Is who coming?" The reply: "Dick Nixon, of course, lie just landed a lew moments ago at Hie 'llnrrlshurg Airport." Answering. "No," Ihe aide ex plained he didn't even know Nixon was in tlie stale. Nixon. H turns out, was on his way In see (ieneral Eisenhower al his Gettysburg farm. John Kenneth Gnlhi aith. mak ing a sicech on "Wealth and Poverty" before a Farmers Ed ueational Foundation group in Washington, delivered some harlicd compliments to Sen. Harry Gnldwnler without men tioning Ihe author of "The Con science of a Conservative" by name. Gnlhrailh, lor those who may 'Up Barry' Or Rocky! Or Cabot! Or Scranton! Or Romney! Or Nixon! Or Kuchel!" Or Morton!" j. have forgotten, is also an au thorThe Alfluent Society." and others and is a former Kennedy administration bruin Iruster and ambassador lo In dia, now back in business al his old stand, dishing it out as a prolcssor at Harvard. "The first three or (our times I rend 'The Conscience o( a Con servative.' " said Galbruilh, "I con less that I was slightly al Irncled by the vision of a young, two-fisted man of my own age, up (rom the ranks, self-made, self-reliant, accepting Ihe risk of illness without in come, disdaining any organized provision (or his old age, ask ing only that he niighl keep sale from tlie tax collector whal he earned by Ihe sweat of his brow. "I continue to think nf this as Ihe work of a detached schol ar. .Hut in tlie purely literary way that one writer explores tlie psyche of anotlter, 1 wonder if some personal anxieties are not eased by idcntitlcallon with a really good store." Former Hep. Homer Thorn berry. D-Tex., a longtime friend of President Johnson, had a slight problem in cleaning out his desk before returning home to lake a federal judgeship. The thorough Thornberry just couldn't bring himself to throw anything away. Aware of this plight, his staff pitched in to help. Kvery day when the con gressman led his oil ice. several secretaries would tackle h i s desk and files. Eventually, they managed lo discard enough material f n r Thornberry to depart relatively unencumbered. By LYLE C. WILSON United Press International It is about time that there be a suspension of the malicious and-or ill-informed speculation about the assassination of Pres ident Kennedy. It may be too much to expect Europeans to suspend judgment, to reject ru mors, to repudiate scandal numbering. Hut it should not lie too much lo expect Ameri cans to awail in good (aith the report of the President's com mission. First off there was Ihe at tempt to make Hie kookie right wingers appear to be respon sible. That folded under the weight of the fact that Lee Os wald was a pro-Commie Marx ist. II did not seem reasonable lo believe thai the impassioned righlies had lieen able to re cruit an impassioned lefty to do a job of assassination for them. Thereafter the United States Secret Service SS came un der fire of accusation. SS agents were retried drinking in a Fori Worth night club the night before JFK was slinl and therefore unable to projK'rly discharge their duties Ihe fol lowing day. The facts disclosed by file simplest of investiga tions disclosed that there was no such sequence of events liearing on the prelection of Ihe President. Johnson Scolclies Rumors Indictment of the Secret Serv ice collapsed utterly when President Johnson personally decorated members of the SS for valorous conduct on Nov. 22. U. K. Bnughmnn, former SS chief, was sharply critical of Hie conduct of Ihe organiza tion from which he retired about two years ago. Hatigh man's complaints, however, ap pear not to have been laken seriously by Ihe administration. The amateur public prosecu tors are turning from the Secret Service to the FBI. The public is being asked lo believe Ihaf Ihe FBI was derelict and dial it has a great responsibili ty for the tragic circumstances under which the President was murdered on Nov 22. WASHINGTON REPORTS Veteran llv I'l LION LEWIS Jit. W ASHINGTON - A group i f distinguished New Yorkers have sent greetings to a veteran Com munist who is being honored al a testimonial dinner Jan. 4 They include the Minori'y Leader of the New York Slate Senate: the recently - retired president of the New Y n r k Hoard of Education: Ihe Comp troller of the City of New York: a Civil Court Judge: a world fa mous Kiet; and several dis tinguished educators. They will join in a tribute lo Hose Russell, legislative direc tor of Ihe New York Teachers Union, a group expelled from the CIO as Communisl-dominai-ed. Tlie Teachers t'nion. I h e n known as Uical k, United Pub lic Workers Union, was lirst la beled Communist in l!H2 by a Committee of the New York Slate Legislature. In WIS a sub committee of Congress found Ihe union to be CommunM-run. Tlie Senate Internal Securi ty Subcommittee made a thor ough investigation of Ihe Teach ers Union a decade ago. It lieaixl numerous witnesses, friendly and unfriendly, a n d then released its report: "Before hearing the officers of tlie New York Teachers I n ion. the sulicommiltoc heard ev idence in secret session that lo of the U officers it has sub IHK'nued were memlvis of the Communist Party. "It also hoard that Ihe oih er three were not members of Ihe Party. Without revealing this evidence, tlie svibconiniil tee asked die U officers of tlie Union if they were in tact Com munists. The in who were so identified all invoked llieir priv ilege against incrimination: die other three all denied member ship ami altacked Ihe siihcom. niillee " One of tlio.se lo lake Hie Killh was Rose Russell. She had been identified by John Uuilnei a tmwr Comiiunusl. as a P.niv member on Oct. l.i. v:2 He had called her a whoollioi-c in a ' tup coordinating committee" of tlie New York Communist Party Nmong those who hae ent snvtinc l Mis Russell. h will be boomed at a te-.tim.ini al dinnir Jan 4. ,r w Beame. New York ritv iomi troller; Max J Rubin, recently retired head ol Hie New York City Board cf Education Ih Harold T.iv !w . foi niet (iesi To this end, it is charged that Ihe FBI knew about Oswald prior lo the assassination and that the FBI permitted Oswald to remain unwatched and unre lated to the Secret Service. This seems to be an example of selecting the facts to justify a pre - conceived conclusion that die FBI was at fault. There has been public knowl edge from the beginning thai Ihe FBI had been investigating Oswald. The purpose was to Jearn whether Oswald was en gaged in any subversive activi ty in behalf uf the Soviet Union. Tliis was an espionage investi gation hy Ihe FBI. Nothing had been developed In it that would have warranted the FBI in alerting the SS and the Dallas police lo die (act that Oswald was in Texas. Bureau Investigates Many The FBI can demonstrate that the hard fact of the mai ler is that the bureau knows of so manv kooks, cranks, mils and such scattered around the foiled Slates that it would he imtMissihle for all law enforce ment agencies combined to watch all of them. There musl he a choice a logical choice regarding those who can be watched. Tlie choice musl go obviously to those who have shown some previous capacity for violence. Oswald had shown no indica liim that he was capable of as sassination. To suggest that the FBI should have had pre knnwlcdgc of how Oswald's mind would work is to demand more of dial agency than is reasonable. The FBI does not read minds. It reads evi dence. Anil there is the gossipy charge that the FBI and SS are feuding. Not so. SS chief Jim Rowley is a former FBI agent and a star lecturer al the FBI's National Academy. Moreover FBI and SS main lain daily contact in Washing Inn and elsewhere. Next time you hear an expose of inside dntc on die assassination, ask die man: Who lold vou that? Red Honored dent of Sarah Lawrence C ! lege: Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn, a recent winner nf the Presi dential Modal of Freedom: Civ il Court Judge I-cwis Flasg: Ihe Rev. Miltrn Galamison. a leader in the local drive for in Irgrnlinn; and poet l.niigslnn Hughes. Chicago Mayor Richard Da ley has lold associates he will request that the Democratic National Convention lie switched lo his town. Daley, mentioned as a possi ble Vice Presidential running male for Lyndon Johnson, wants the convention moved out of At lantic City. It is considered high ly douhtlul that Democratic National Chairman John Bailey will look kindly upon tlie idea. First of all, Chicago's McCor mick Amphitheatre is Ixiokcd solidly for August, anil t li e convention would have In tie held in July. It is now selied ulcd for Aug. 2-t. Moving the convention at this late date would greatly an tagonize New Jersey leaders. Johnson will have a tough enough problem carrying the Caiilcn Slate as it is. Ohio Stale University has re jected membership in the con troversial National Student As sociation. Ohio Stale .students, who voted last year to get out of NSA. turned down by a mar gin of more than 2-1 a motion to get back in. Ohio Stale follows tlie lead of Yale. Dartmouth, the Universi ty of Florida. Vanderbilt. Ante iH'h. and the University of Del aware in rojivling NS this fall. Ohio's Boh Taft Jr heads thr list of Congressmen who will at tempt next fall to win election to thr U.S. Senate Taft. who seeks the Senate seat of Demo crat Steve Y'oung. is a top-heavy favorite. New- Mexico's Joe Montovn has challenged GOP Sen Ed Mcchem. Indiana's Don liruce. nn articulate voung Republican, is thought a likely opponent lor llemocral Sen Vance ll.utke Maryland's "Mac" Mathias i contemplating a iaie for tlie Senate seat now held h .1 Glenn Brail, like M.ithus ,( Re publican. Wyoming Ccngreman W 1 1 bam Henry Harriscn is Invstrd (or the Senate sui no occu pied by IVm,iir;if O.iV Metier LBJ Awakens To Reality By DOItIS FLEESON WASHINGTON Congress has given President Juhnson a dif ficult Christmas, which could in die end prove helpful. When the President finally es capes to his holiday musings at the LBJ Ranch he will be forced to consider the true nature of his present relationships with his old stamping ground. He had expected lo prevail rather easily in his first show down with Congress, and it was natural that he should. The is sueforeign aid clearly rests within the Presidential province of responsibility for foreign pol icy. The appropriation he had Several California Congressmen, including Alphonso Bell and Craig Hosmor, are rated possi ble opponents of Sen. Clair En gle. an ailing Democrat w h o may not seek reelection. In Michigan. GOP Congress man Robert Griffin is thought a likely opponent for Democrat Sen. Phil Hart. Utah's two Con gressmen, both Republicans, are possible opponents of Sen. Frank Moss. IN WASHINGTON . By RALPH de TOLEDANO If there is any belief that the contest for the Republican Pres idential nomination will he an Mphonse - tiaston affair, it had lietter be abandoned fast. The Goldwater forces, the Rockefel ler forces, and the dark horse forces will be taking on all comers, and Ihe battle has be gun. In Pennsylvania's Allegheny County. Ihe GOP is up in arms over what it considers a raw play by the Rockefeller tram Though in Pennsylvania there had been not a single defection from the Goldwater camp after the assassination of President Kennedy, the mishandled strong - arm attempt has solid ilied the determination of those battling lor Mr. Goldwater The story has not reached the national press media as of this writing, and it deserves some comment. Paul Hugus. chairman of the Mlegheny County Republican Party, was the first county chairman in Pennsylvania to come out (or Senator Goldwa ter. Since Allegheny County in cludes Pittsburgh, his bailiwick was ol considerable importance This fact has not been lost to Gov. William Scranton, who is an avowed Nelson Rockefeller man. On Nov n. Governor Scran Inn hecan summoning key Re publican county cli, in men to Harnsburg to discuss thr change in Ihe political situation resulting from Ihe assassination of John F. Kennedy Among those he spoke to w.is Mr Ho- agreed to represented less than two-thirds of Ihe sum President Kennedy had orginally thought necessary. The President felt that he was on solid ground in assert ing strongly what he regarded as the national interest. He ran up against the overweening arrogance of a subcommittee chairman, party politics and the general slackness which has characterized the Congressional session. The old Johnson tics proved weak; the old sense of belong ing with the Congress w a s shown to be unreal. The emo tion of the Kennedy mourning period did not soften the harsh practical outlines of his prob lem. The President now knows that the President is the President and Congress is the Congress and getting the twain to meet will he a tedious and tiring task from here on in. It will be hard fur Lyndon Johnson to settle down to such reflections. He has always been prone lo substitute action for thought. He is by temperament sanguine and confident of his powers of persuasion. In many ways it will be difficult really to depart from the dogmas of his Congressional past. It will be a temptation lo blame much of the Christmas week's unpleasantness on t It e thorny nature of the foreign aid issue. In general and in part for Rough Stuff Nov In what seemed to be a pleas ant and amiable discussion. Governor Scranton urged Mr. Ilugus to withdraw his support of Senator Goldwater. Mr. Hu gus refused but said that he would give some thought lo the changed situation and would then come to some assessment of it. The discussion, however. as leaked lo the Pittsburgh pUi. Gazette, which then headlined l: "Scranton Cuts Off wm Patronage- Goldwater Backing Is Responsible- Job Influence Nil Unless Chairman Changes His Mind." This could have been a terrible blow. Though t h e Scranton administration in Pennsylvania has in many in stances favored Democrat-, some 81KI patronage jobs in Al leglieny County have been snatched from the countv chair man. Tlie story, if believed, would have cut tlie ground out horn under Mr. Hugus. Hie leaked story and its im plications caused a stir in Pitts burgh and. in fact, throiighoul Pennsylvania. But Ihe result was precisely die opposite of what the State House bunch had expected. Telegrams began lo pour into Governor Seranlon's otlice. Heavy contributors lo the Pennsylvania GOP said that if llicsr r:e tlie tactics being em ployed, they would never give apoinrr penny to die Reaibhcau Paity At die tame lime, tixr Gold water lorces ui Pennsylvania waiting out the period of mourn ing hrlore rrMimint their fichl eign bid has been shown lo have many weaknesses. Eadt year Vc burdened taxpayers have jiied more loudly and their cdtiplainls have been sup ported lit just by members of Congress who saw the issue narrowjyUiut by some of the most scions and respected members.! The Eiskihower and Kctute dy Admiilsliatioiis never seemed abft to present tlie is sue in a gtsc which softened Ihe objecting. Every year the long-term uWts which were anil had lo hdin the President's mind met til annual budgcl. Ihe major vckclc for Congres sional frustrates, and the bat tleground was Lody. This year il simply is hlildier than usual and covered wh torn Christ mas wrappings! Yet this year.Uoo, the coun try has suffered V profound po litical tragedy ail has a new President facing a world in which foreign aid k a major as pect of United Sales policy. The Christmas Struggle in Washington has no helped. The President mle the de cision to push ahead w ithout de lay on any sector a frost with in hours of his succession to John F. Kennedy. Hme Con gressional soniors advised and hoped for a quiet interregnum. Pro-Kennedy forces sad no and Johnson cant down on their side. Wlictlmr le iv;,s ,.jg,t or wrong is Ifss important than his consideinl judgment of his altered relatilns with Congress. Begins for a delegation to the VKA con vention picdgtd lo their candi date were Jilvanized info ac lion. As a result. jGovcrnor Scran ton. who has list much ground in his state in ic past months, was forced to i.'die a denial. So. too. did Clyde Tmax. GOP state chairnvm. who UA been pres ent at Ihe mectim with Mr. Hu gus. There had been no at tempt to coccc Sr. Hugus or lo deprive him ot his rightful share of palronagct But the ('amag:- had been done. Paul Uncus lad been one of the more impoi'jnt county chairmen in the ftnnsylvania Republican Parly, ow he br came a martyr to Hi Goldwater cause. Something had been needed to slir up ie troops from the apathy which had fol lowed Ihe Kennedy issassina lion and inadvertently. Gov ernor Scranton and tic Rocke feller learn bad (uinisled it. This is one ease ill which the rough stulf (ailed. But il raises scrams oucstions alioiil Ihe lip (oming Presidential sweep stakes. Huw manv ircidents of this kind are taking place? Is the nomination of n Presidential candidate mung lo lie a question of pressure intimidation or is il t reflect Ihe Iree will of Ihe voters. Tlie rliori of nne taction m die GOP t stampede its opposi tion is not mp'.v nnr i it re serve, j t0 t,c Republican Patty. As the primary approach, it can be predicted thai we ain't seen mithine vt.
