NATIONAL AFFAIRS AU REVOIR This is the last column I shall write for Commonweal. I expect to contribute to the magazine occasionally in the future but not on the approximately every-other-week...
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NATIONAL AFFAIRS THE PRESIDENTIAL PUZZLE The transformation of the political scene in recent weeks has belied the pessimism of radicals and far exceeded the optimism of liberals. When I wrote in...
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NATIONAL AFFAIRS THE TRANSPORTATION TANGLE One of the surprises m President Johnson's State of the Union message last month was his request for a cabinet-level Department of Transportation...
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power in the Western region persomfied corruption in poht~cs. * Chief Festus Okotle-Eboh, well known for his expanding personal fortune, who persomfied graft m national life. Conversely, the...
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Of the traditional Papal greeting for lwely American hand-wawng. Several lames he slowed down to gwe a cinld's outstretched hand an affeclaonate slap. At least twice he stopped to bless crippled...
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WASHINGTON REPORT The Other Washington WASHINGTON is the capital of the United States and of the free world, the scene of glittering diplomatic and private parties, of marble monuments, and of...
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The Bobby Baker Case THE Bobby Baker case has become the first major political embarrassment of the Johnson Administration. It has also become a major ordeal for "the Establishment," the bipartisan...
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Cynics, Critics and Presidents "WE HAVE in 1964 a unique opportunity and obligation to prove the success of our system-to disprove those cynics and critics at home and abroad who question our...
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WASHINGTON REPORT
The President and the Intellectuals
IN THE WEEKS since the death of President Kennedy, no subject has intrigued Washington more than the relationship of the intellectuals he...
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WASHINGTON REPORT
The Mood in Washington
IN JAMES JOYCE'S "Ivy Day in the Committee Room," three Dublin political workers are reminiscing about Parnell. "If this man was alive ..." is their refrain....
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WASHINGTON REPORT
Foreign Aid in Trouble
FOR THOSE who believe that the United States has an important moral obligation to assist the economic development of the poorer countries of the world, the...
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WASHINGTON REPORT Saving Latin Democracies UNTIL late September, it had been possible to counterpoint the Kennedy Administration's exasperating failures in coping with Castroism in Cuba with the...
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WASHINGTON REPORT The Making of a Prime Minister TO AN AMERICAN visitor in the autumn of 1963, British politics has many familiar aspects. Dr. Gallup and other pollsters chart the weekly...
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The Eisenhower Court
"SEEMINGLY WITHOUT CONSCIOUS DESIGN, MR. EISENHOWER HAS CONSTRUCTED A COHERENT LIBERAL MAJORITY ON THE COURT"
WILLIAM V. SHANNON
IT IS ONE of the striking ironies of...
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