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...speech to the Republican National Committee last week, Maine's Senator Margaret Chase Smith charged that the Democrats are "bogged down and apparently incapable of either winning the war or bringing the fighting to an honorable conclusion." This week, before the American Mining Conference in Denver, House G.O.P. Caucus Chairman Melvin Laird planned to announce that Republicans are now "breaking" with Johnson on the war, though in general they have given him stronger backing than have the Democrats...
...Dictator. For two days, the Negroes haughtily segregated themselves be hind a locked door at the Palmer House. "Black Caucus," declared a sign on the door. "For Blacks Only!!!" When they finally appeared, it was with a splenetic 13-point statement, which they insisted the convention accept or they would secede. The Negroes' demands included 1) Negro membership on all committees, though they made up only about 20% of the delegates; 2) "white civilizing" committees to "humanize the savage and beastlike character of whites" as "exemplified by Lyndon Baines Johnson"; and 3) condemnation of the "im perialistic Zionist...
...when he rises tomorrow to present the representatives of the "liberal caucus" here at the University of Maryland, he will face a group of over 1200 "student leaders" waiting in the cavernous, banner-filled convention hall under the lights of national television...
Also attending the conference is Craig Stewart of Leverett House, who spoke in opposition to the radical amendment on behalf of the moderate caucus...
...There is no dark secret to Reagan's success. By holding frequent meetings with the lawmakers, he has infected them with his straightforward, purposeful approach. "I don't think there is a single legislator who doesn't like Governor Reagan as an individual," said Assembly Republican Caucus Chairman Don Mulford. He has held regular weekly press conferences, submitted to innumerable interviews and gone on television with direct, "state of the state" reports to explain his actions to Californians...