Trimming the Democratic Turkey with Republican Parsley

Order of Battle: A Republicans Call to Reason, by Jacob K. Javits. Atheneum, $5.95

Senator Jacob K. Javits (R., N.Y.) is the only member of the United States Senate who has ever been called upon to account for support from a Communist Party official in launching his political career. (Youngsters, as well as the forgetful and the merely forgiving, are referred to Part 43 of the hearings of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee on Scope of Soviet Activity in the United States, dated September 5, 1956.) He is, moreover, the only Republican Senator who has ever earned the accolade of a perfect 100 for his voting record from Americans for Democratic Action. Not surprisingly, the conservative Americans for Constitutional Action rate the same record at a towering 13 (out of a possible 100). Recently he has acquired a further, somewhat outre prominence by announcing, alone among professional Republican politicians, that he will not even undertake to support Senator Goldwater, if the Republican National Convention in San Francisco should be so misguided as to nominate him for President of the United States. Armed with these prepossessing credentials, Senator Javits now steps forward to lecture the Republican Party on its principles.

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Order of Battle: A Republicans Call to Reason, by Jacob K. Javits. Atheneum, $5.95

Senator Jacob K. Javits (R., N.Y.) is the only member of the United States Senate who has ever been called upon to account for support from a Communist Party official in launching his political career. (Youngsters, as well as the forgetful and the merely forgiving, are referred to Part 43 of the hearings of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee on Scope of Soviet Activity in the United States, dated September 5, 1956.) He is, moreover, the only Republican Senator who has ever earned the accolade of a perfect 100 for his voting record from Americans for Democratic Action. Not surprisingly, the conservative Americans for Constitutional Action rate the same record at a towering 13 (out of a possible 100). Recently he has acquired a further, somewhat outre prominence by announcing, alone among professional Republican politicians, that he will not even undertake to support Senator Goldwater, if the Republican National Convention in San Francisco should be so misguided as to nominate him for President of the United States. Armed with these prepossessing credentials, Senator Javits now steps forward to lecture the Republican Party on its principles.