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...distressed to read of the demise of the House of Representatives' summer internship program. As an intern last summer with Rep. George Bush (R-Texas), I consider the experience to have been one of the best I have ever had in learning the process of government first-hand, and I regret others will be deprived of this opportunity...
...Rep. George W. Andrews (D.-Ala.), whose subcommittee on House Appropriations labeled the appropriation "a deplorable item of expenditure", said in a telephone interview yesterday, "The major factor in our decision was economy." But he added that "the anti-war activity of last summer's interns was also a factor...
...Rep. Robert Michel (R-III.) denounced the letter and called it the work of a conspiracy, Green said. "He charged that we were planning a walk-out at the President's annual address to the Washington interns--which was false." Rumors of a walk-out led Johnson to cancel his address...
CNCV's new activities clearly represent a break with the group's past method. Since its inception last spring, CNCV has had only one major activity at a time. First, it petitioned Rep. Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. (D.-Mass.) to come to Cambridge for hearings on the war; next, it held the Cambridge Peace Fair; and then it waged the long referendum battle. Now, CNCV is moving in several directions at once--an approach which creates both possibilities and potential problems...
...Rep. Thomas P. O'Neill (D-Mass.) moved still further away from the Johnson Administration's Vietnam policy yesterday with a prediction that Johnson would have a hard time defeating Sen. Eugene McCarthy (D-Minn.) in the 1968 Massachusetts presidential primary...