Republican Stew

WASHINGTON—With a roll of drums and flourish of trumpets, the Republican leadership of the House of Representatives has produced a legislative program for the Seventies—or such portions thereof as Republican legislators can manage to control.

The document had been in preparation for a span of months, moving slowly along the esoteric byways of party approval. As the early stories described it, this was to be the first time ever that the congressional delegation of the party in charge of the White House had come up with its own separate program. As Minority Leader John J. Rhodes of Arizona put it: “What we want is a document that will show a clear contrast between the Republican minority—emasculated as we may be—and the Democratic majority, and will also go beyond the Administration’s program.”

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WASHINGTON—With a roll of drums and flourish of trumpets, the Republican leadership of the House of Representatives has produced a legislative program for the Seventies—or such portions thereof as Republican legislators can manage to control.

The document had been in preparation for a span of months, moving slowly along the esoteric byways of party approval. As the early stories described it, this was to be the first time ever that the congressional delegation of the party in charge of the White House had come up with its own separate program. As Minority Leader John J. Rhodes of Arizona put it: “What we want is a document that will show a clear contrast between the Republican minority—emasculated as we may be—and the Democratic majority, and will also go beyond the Administration’s program.”