THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Wednesday, January 8, 1964
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
OLD PROBLEM RETURNS
Texas Demos Leaderless
Election Trail
With LBJ In Whitehouse
Leaves Senate Bare
This is a year for national elections, if you don’t believe
it just look around you. In all parts of the country the
smiles are on and promises are flowing freely.
However, if there is doubt about this being a season of
goodwill toward the voters, one has only to cast an eye to
Washington, Capitol Hill and more specifically the Senate
chamber. With the new session of Congress opening yester
day, it was all the upper house could do to muster together
enough members for a quorum. After the session was finally
opened, it was recessed after a fruitless 23 minutes. It was
said that the Senate recessed out of respect for the late
Congressman Baker who had died with a heart attack.
Regardless of why the Senate recessed, there still re
mains the question of just where are all those Senators were?
Certainly there is no doubt in anyone’s mind where one of
the upper house members is. He is limping his way through
New Hampshire in an effort to assure himself of coming
out on top of the Republican heap in that state’s primary.
Probably if one had a means of finding out, he would
learn the other delinquent Senators are on missions just as
important, as far as they are concerned, as Sen. Goldwater’s
trip to New Hampshire.
But election year or no election year it‘s not easy to
pass off the readiness with which members of Congress
declare for themselves a leave of absence from their jobs
in Washington in order to participate in coffee hours and
to stuff themselves on banquet steaks.
“ . . . And just a few days ago I was complaining about
left over turkey!”
WASHINGTON (A>) — Now
that Lyndon B. Johnson is in the
White House the Texas Demo
cratic delegation finds itself in
a leadership dilemma not unlike
that when death came to Speaker
Sam Rayburn on Nov. 16, 1961.
The vacuum caused by Ray
burn’s departure has been only
partially filled during these in
tervening two yeafs. No one man
has so much as thought of taking
over. But, Johnson and Rep.
Wright Patman of Texarkana,
the “dean” of the delegation,
jointly have attempted to fill the
void.
In his first four weeks as pres
ident, Johnson slipped away from
the White House to come unan
nounced to the Capitol and break
bread with his old friends — at
regular Wednesday luncheons of
the Texas Democratic delegation
in the Speaker’s Dining room.
Off hand, this could be inter
preted an indication he intends
to keep close to Texas problems,
political and otherwise, as he did
as vice president. Some of those
closest to him, however, say that
isn’t likely — that for obvious
national political reasons he must
be careful not to appear too pro-
Bulletin Board Goldwater Visits Concord
WEDNESDAY
College Station Baha’i will
meet in the Anderson Room of
the YMCA Building at 7:30 p.m.
THURSDAY
Aerospace Engineers Wives
Club will meet in the home of
Mrs. Paul Meiners at 400 Francis
at 8 p.m.
Hometown Clubs
Amarillo will meet in the And
erson Room of the YMCA Build
ing at 7:30 p.m.
El Paso will meet at 7:30 p.m.
in the Art Room of the Memorial
Student Center.
Rio Grande Valley will meet in
Room 106 of the Academic Build
ing at 7:30 p.m.
Showing Much Confidence
Russian Exchange
Talks On Again
MOSCOW 0*P)-—Two American
proposals to increase information
among the Russians about West
ern affairs ran into Soviet oppo
sition at the outset Tuesday of
talks on extension of the U.S.-
Soviet cultural exchange pro
gram.
Kennedy abruptly suspended
plans for the talks. The profes
sor was freed shortly thereafter.
U. S. officials said they will do
their best to get permission for
establishment of a chain of
American - sponsored reading
rooms in the Soviet Union.
Heading the American delega
tion at the opening ceremony was
U. S. Ambassador Foy D. Kohler.
Both he and Romanovsky paid
tribute to recent statements by
Premier Khrushchev and Presi
dent Johnson on desirability of
the cultural exchange agree
ments.
The United States also wants
to increase to at least 100,000 the
copies of the State Department
picture magazine “America” sold
on Soviet news stands. The Rus
sians limit sales to 60,000.
Report On Smoking
Slated For Doctors
Chief Soviet delegate Sergei
Romanovsky took note of both
in an aside to a prepared speech.
He said there will be no discus
sion about the establishment of
American reading rooms. He al
so declared there will be no talk
about boosting the circulation of
U. S. publications.
WASHINGTON (A*) _ The re
port on smoking and health which
will be released officially at noon
Saturday will be sent directly to
every medical doctor and osteopath
in the United States.
A Public Health Service spokes
man said today this will require
about 200,000 copies of the report.
Negotiating beg-ins Wednesday
on the new agreement, intended
to extend through 1964-65 the
exchanges begun under a pact
signed in 1958.
The first printing run, how
ever, is only 8,000 copies which will
be sent to all members of Congress,
state governors, state health offi
cers and others more immediately
affected.
CONCORD, N. H. <A>) — Sen.
Barry Goldwater is in the midst
of a three-day swing through
New Hampshire expressing con
fidence he can win the state’s 14
delegates to boost his quest for
the Republican nomination for
president.
The Arizona Republican open
ed his tour Tuesday with a news
conference at his bunting-draped
Concord headquarters close to
the Capitol, predicting he will
win not only in the nation’s first
primary, in New Hampshire
March 10, but also in some of
the bigger states, California,
Oregon and Illinois. He said he
also might enter in Ohio.
Goldwater said he will take
his chances with the big indus
trial cities and predicted Re
publicans will gain in the sub
urbs, which he said are tiring
of domination by the big cities.
New Hampshire, with its
early primary, has been the
base for presidential campaigns
for years. It was a write-in vic
tory here in 1952 that led unde
clared Dwight D. Eisenhower to
run.
Goldwater’s news conference
ranged widely from his position
on the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization and nuclear weap
ons to income taxes and the fu
ture of conservatism in the Re
publican party.
Goldwater told his news con
ference the Republican party
must nominate a conservative to
give the people the choice be
tween two philosophies of gov
ernment.
efeller, the only other declared
candidate for the GOP nomina
tion, is the head of the liberal
wing of the party.
“If a conservative cannot be
nominated,” he said, “then a
handful of liberals is controlling
the party.”
Goldwater said he had given
Eisenhower his position state
ment on foreign affairs but that
it concerned mostly NATO and
the Western Alliance. He said
he asked for criticism but that
the former president did not ex
press any.
Goldwater said his view is
that the commander of NATO
should be given all modern
weapons, including tactical nu
clear weapons.
However, he said the Presi
dent should retain control over
strategic nuclear devices.
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ALBANY, N. Y. <A>) _ Gov.
Nelson A. Rockefeller today
handed the Legislature a 1964
program that promised no tax
increases, urged a few specific
new programs but shied away
from major political, home-front
controversy that might damage
his presidential hopes.
Gov. Romney
Would Take
GOP Draft
He said Gov. Nelson A. Rock-
The negotiations were to have
opened last November. They
were delayed by the arrest by
the Soviets of Prof. Frederick C.
Barghoorn of Yale on spy charg
es. The late President John F.
Copies for the general public
will be put on sale at the Gov
ernment Printing Office when
they become available after the
official release.
FRYING PAN INTO FIRE
MIAMI, Fla., <A>) — Policeman
Norman T. Evans rescued a 14-
year-old boy from drowning,
then arrested the youth.
Evans said the boy had fallen
out of a stolen boat.
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WASHINGTON <A>) __ Michi
gan Gov. George Romney said
Tuesday he would accept if Re
publicans drafted him for the
presidential nomination.
After a luncheon address at
the National Press Club, Rom
ney was asked whether he is
an active candidate, and wheth
er he would accept if “substan
tial sentiment” developed for
him.
“Gee,” he told the audience
amid laughter. “I was afraid
that question might not be
asked.
“I have indicated clearly that
I am not going to be a candi
date for the nomination.
“I have no way of knowing
whether such a demand as you
mentioned will develop. It would
be presumptuous to assume
that it will.
“However, if it should, like
any other concerned American I
would have a duty to accept.”
In his speech he told the club
this is a “moment of historic
Republican opportunity.”
He called for a grass roots
campaign to recruit into the
party all those “who are wor
ried about the trend toward
statism and away from creative
cooperation by groups of con
cerned citizens.”
The party, he said, must work
toward a rebirth of the nation
and a restoration of the eternal
principles of its founders.
He proposed revisions and
modifications in several special
ized areas but recommended no
sweeping new programs in mat
ters of public interest and ap
plication.
The Republican governor’s an
nual message to the opening ses
sion of the legislature advocated:
Repeal of the state’s 51-year-
old laws that specify the mini
mum size of railroad train crews.
A pay raise for state em
ployes.
Authorization for grand jury
presentments — reports that crit
icize public officials although no
criminal charges are made.
A single, June primary in this
presidential election year.
Rockefeller made no recom
mendations, pending the out
come of various studies and in
vestigations, on such controver
sial issues as a $1.50-an-hour
minimum wage, legislative eth
ics, liquor-license scandals, state
aid to localities, proposals for
more aid to education, low-in
come housing and tighter state
control over private ownership
of firearms.
In a detailed account of his
five years as governor, Rocke
feller claimed “imposing accom
plishment in dealing with indus
trial growth, education and civil
rights.
He hinted that “this great hu
man progress” in New York
State could be a, handy blue
print for solving similar national
problems.
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vincial. They feel he may at
tend other luncheons from time
to time, but only for the plea
sure of being with old friends.
Still another void is now be
ing realized in the leadership
situation: that left by the re
signation Dec. 20 of Rep. Homer
Thornberry, D., Austin, to be
come a federal district judge.
“We are hard pressed with
Homer’s leaving,” commented
Rep. Joe Kilgore of McAllen, the
1963 chairman of the delegation.
“He was trusted by everybody.
His judgement was respected by
everybody. You could call him a
moderate liberal or a liberal mod
erate.”
In that summary, Kilgore put
his finger on the real problem.
While such tags are sometimes
unsafe to the individuals involv
ed, it is true that for years the
Texas delegation (now 23 house
members, including two republi
cans, and a democratic and a re
publican senator) has been al
most evenly split three ways —
among liberals, conservatives and
middle-of-the readers.
Rayburn had enough personal
influence to swing the group be
hind him almost to a man on
vital issues. Since his death the
delegation has split widely, and
on some votes it went predomin
antly against the Democratic
leadership in the Kennedy Ad
ministration.
There has been speculation and
presumption on the part of some
that with Johnson in the White
House there will be more unani
mity among the Texas Demo
crats. It’s a good bet there will
be an improvement, but an equal
ly good bet is that on many vital
issues it won’t make any differ
ence that their fellow Texan and
friend is now president.
An example is the vote on the
“$2.8 Billion foreign aid appro
priation bill which passed the
House, 249-135. The Senate up
ped the figure to $3.3 billion with
Sen. Ralph Yarborough, D., Tex.,
voting for the bill. Sen. John
Tower, R., Tex., was not record
ed as voting on the measure
which passed, 60-25.
The Texans in the House were
evenly split on the measure with
11 for the bill and 11 against,
and one listed as not voting.
Those for: Beckworth, Brooks,
Gonzalez, Mahon, Patman, Pur
cell, Roberts, Thomas, Thorn-
berry, Wright, Young. Those
against: Burleson, Casey, Dow
dy, Fisher, Kilgore, Poage, Pool,
Rogers, Teague, and the two Re
publicans — Alger and Foreman.
Thompson was listed as not vot
ing.
Rep. W. R. (Bob) Poage of
Waco, a veteran of 26 years in
Congress is a moderate to whom
many of his colleagues often look
for advice or comment when they
discuss how to vote on an issue.
At one of the delegation lunch
eons President Johnson said that
Poage next to Thornberry was
his dearest friend among the
Texas congressmen, yet on the
very day before Poage had vot
ed against the Administration’s
foreign aid bill. And, there was
no doubt that Johnson knew how
the Texans had voted.
“I think I will go along with
the Johnson administration on
most issues,” Poage commented
later. “But I won’t vote for any
thing just because they want it."
In the speculation as to where
the Texans will turn for leader
ship, two other names have been
mentioned — Rep. Albert Thomas
of Houston and Rep. Jack Brooks.
They both were aboard the
presidential plane with Johnson
when he flew back from Dallas
after the assassination of Presi
dent Kennedy. Other Texas con
gressmen who had been in the
presidential motorcade when the
tragedy took place flew back in
a separate plane.
Some of the Texans point this
out to suggest that Thomas and
Brooks, with long and strong
democratic administration pro
gram records, will be close to the
White House these days. Others,
however, recall that Thomas and
Johnson had been rivals for an
important House committee post
years ago and had never appear
ed outwardly to be fast friends,
While the real power leader
ship question may remain un
settled, Patman continues to
wield great influence because of
his seniority. He has been in
the House since March 4, 1929.
Kilgore will surrender his De
mocratic delegation chairmanship
position with the beginning of
the new session on Jan. 7, to Rep.
Jim Wright of Fort Worth. The
chairmanship rotates yearly on a
seniority basis. Rep. John Young
of Corpus Christi is next in line
after Wright.
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