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You say the Bobby Baker investigation is finished? Um-hum. What did you learn? We learned a good deal. About what? About good deals, mainly. Was it legal? You’ll have to ask the Justice Department. Have you communicated with the Justice Department? No, that’s the Executive Branch, and we’re the Legislative Branch, you know. Has Justice communicated with the Senate? Yes. What said Justice? Justice says it isn’t interested in witch hunts. Is that because the witches were deported? That would be for the State Department to answer. Was any evidence of wrongdoing on the part of United States senators discovered? The investigation was conducted discreetly, but some areas were uncovered that indicate a need for corrective action on the part of the United States Congress. Specifically, what? The problem of poverty. Anything else? Say, what is this, a witch hunt?

Secretaries Rusk and McNamara, General Taylor and Ambassador (and. pre-Oregon candidate) Lodge converged on Hawaii June 1 to discuss the crisis in Southeast Asia (see James Burnham’s analysis in this issue). Two days later they winged away again, east and west. The returning statements they made to the press, as well as the comments of President Johnson at his June 2 news conference, indicate that, once more, nothing has been decided about the irrepressible issue: to get in or out. The will of the President, who fully realizes how either choice might wreck his smoothly rolling course toward a November 3 triumph, seems paralyzed. It doesn’t seem fair: neither Mao, Khrushchev nor Ho Chi Minh has an election to worry about.

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You say the Bobby Baker investigation is finished? Um-hum. What did you learn? We learned a good deal. About what? About good deals, mainly. Was it legal? You’ll have to ask the Justice Department. Have you communicated with the Justice Department? No, that’s the Executive Branch, and we’re the Legislative Branch, you know. Has Justice communicated with the Senate? Yes. What said Justice? Justice says it isn’t interested in witch hunts. Is that because the witches were deported? That would be for the State Department to answer. Was any evidence of wrongdoing on the part of United States senators discovered? The investigation was conducted discreetly, but some areas were uncovered that indicate a need for corrective action on the part of the United States Congress. Specifically, what? The problem of poverty. Anything else? Say, what is this, a witch hunt?

Secretaries Rusk and McNamara, General Taylor and Ambassador (and. pre-Oregon candidate) Lodge converged on Hawaii June 1 to discuss the crisis in Southeast Asia (see James Burnham’s analysis in this issue). Two days later they winged away again, east and west. The returning statements they made to the press, as well as the comments of President Johnson at his June 2 news conference, indicate that, once more, nothing has been decided about the irrepressible issue: to get in or out. The will of the President, who fully realizes how either choice might wreck his smoothly rolling course toward a November 3 triumph, seems paralyzed. It doesn’t seem fair: neither Mao, Khrushchev nor Ho Chi Minh has an election to worry about.