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Thursday, Jan. 18, 1968
Congress Cool To
Tax Increase Plea
By FRANK ELEAZER
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The
90th Congress took a cool view
today of President Johnson’s
promise to keep Americans
rolling at home as well as
abroad. There was no sign he
had sold the tax boost he said
was needed to help pay the
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Some members thought John
son, in his State of the Union
address to a joint session
Wednesday night, was talking
over their heads to the people,
with an eye to the November
election.
Pending a meeting of his
5
(House Ways Means Commit
tee Monday, Chairman Wilbur
D. Mills, D-Ark., withheld
comment on the President’s
urgent new plea for prompt
passage of a 10 per cent
surcharge on income tax bills.
Congress Not Satisfied
But otner members said
Johnson still had not met Mills’
price for unlocking the mea
sure. That was a reduction in
spending. What Johnson prom
ised was a reduced rate of
increase in spending, they said.
Over-all, the President said,
he will spend about $lO billion
more to run the government in
the new fiscal year than will
have been spent at the end of
the current 12 months.
LONG COURTSHIP
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (UPI)
—Two retired master plumbers
exchanged wedding vows Wed
nesday after a friendship of 50
years.
Ralph Francis, 86, was asked
why he finally decided to pop
the question to Rose Earle, 81,
for many years the only woman
master plumber in California.
“I didn’t decide,” Francis
replied. “It was spontaneous.”
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BRUCE BIOBSAT
Democrats Jittery as LB J
Hedges on Vital Leadership
By BRUCE BIOSSAT
NEA Washington Correspondent
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WASHINGTON (NBA)
President Lyndon Johnson evidently wants to go on holding
the White House for another four years without ever learning
what crucial northern Democratic politics is all about
The odd thing is that public opinion polls ranging hint
against various 1968 Republican prospects suggest that under
most circumstances he just might get away with it.
Much is being made of the evidence that Johnson’s 1968
Democratic rival, Sen. Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota, is
not yet building an effective campaign in such key primary
states as New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Wisconsin and
California.
Less appreciated but perhaps more striking is the evidence
that Johnson may triumph in these and other places not be
cause he is gearing up properly for a fight but in spite of the
fact that he is doing almost nothing on the party political
front.
Key organization Democrats are complaining privately that
they are stunned at the President’s massive inactivity.
“I just can’t understand it,” says one. “The indications
are he could win big in a lot of these places if he would just
move.”
Even as it is, Johnson may score a good smash in New
Hampshire over McCarthy through a write-in mounted by
competent regular organization Democrats. He may do sur
prisingly well in Massachusetts and Wisconsin, according to
fresh private sources.
But the big moves from the White House are not there.
Judging from puzzled comment from top regulars, the real
activity emanating from that source could be contained in a
thimble.
Though quite properly it is being documented with fresh
evidence, the story of the Democratic National Committee’s
futility and ineptitude is a long-standing tale.
As suggested by some major party sources, the key point
is not that the President simply is stubbornly resistant to the
obvious need for improvement of the party machinery from
the top down.
The point is rather that he would not know what to do about
it if he wanted to. This, in the view of some, is the operative
thing.
He does not act to fix up the national committee and pro
vide guidance in key states, it is said, because he fears to act
He knows, from painful experience gained in 1960 and there
after, what he does not know.
Applicable today with perhaps greater force than ever is
the comment a leading Democrat made to this reporter many
months ago:
“The President has not only failed to master northern big
city politics, but I believe he knows it, and has given up try
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It may be some sort of miracle if Lyndon Johnson gets re
elected while sitting but not presiding over this moribund
party structure and holding fast to his fears and suspicions
of both the men and the processes by which presidents are
elected.
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