FOR THE RECORD. Would you believe it: Congressional Quarterly reports that self-styled GOP “ideologist” Jacob Javits voted for Great Society programs more consistently in 89th Congress than Democrat Robert Kennedy. Their votes: Javits for LBJ, 75 per cent; Kennedy, 64 per cent.
. Big fight shaping up among Senate Democrats over who will succeed Sen. Smathers as Secretary of influential Senate Democratic Conference: conservative Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia or Liberal Joseph Clark of Pennsylvania. (Which are the three major threats to the survival of American democracy? The USSR, Red China, North Vietnam? Not according to Senator Clark. They are, in order, the military-industrial complex; CIA and the FBI)…
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