Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR CIVIL RIGHTS Regrettably, the authors of the article on President Johnson's reorganization of civil rights responsibilities within the Federal government ("Johnson's Civil Rights...
...In sum, the civil rights reorganization which I recommended, and which the President accepted, should result in a more efficient, better coordinated, and more effective program to guarantee the civil rights of all Americans, regardless of race, color, creed, or national origin, and to promote equality of opportunity...
...His active involvement in this important work demonstrates this Administration's intention to see effective implementation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965...
...In Lester's case, it is impossible to tell whether his error was deliberate or whether he was duped, but does it really make any difference...
...is ready for racial catholicism, their loyal participation—as territories— in the Union, and their competent and persuasive territorial representatives (Ernest Gruening, now U.S...
...The operating agencies of the Federal government have their assignments in clear and unmistakable terms...
...This little example is just one of hundreds which could be offered to show how men supposedly interested in discovering the truth have actually distorted it in order to "prove" their preconceptions...
...has grown from 13 to 50 states since we gained independence, and thus ought to be ready, willing and able to keep on growing...
...Anything else is really public daydreaming Unless one is willing to be totally ingenuous and accept anything that the Cuban government announces, Guevara's letter (assuming that it really was written by him) offers nothing in the way of an acceptable explanation...
...Washington, D. C. HUBERT H. HUMPHREY One point overlooked in Christopher Pyle and Richard Morgan's article on the civil rights shake-up and the concommitant downgrading of Vice President Humphrey is President Johnson's desire not to share the Executive with anyone...
...And since Guevara was last reported seen on April 19 (assuming that Aragon's eyesight is accurate), this is not an explanation of what befell him after April 19...
...Eisenhower was not referring to Diem at all, a fact which Lester ignores, as well as the fact that in an October 1955 referendum in South Vietnam, Diem won well over 80 per cent of the vote in a contest with Bao Dai...
...There was, however, the longer term objective of transferring coordination and implementation responsibilities to the respective Executive departments when that became feasible...
...EXPANDING THE U.S...
...better than we can hope to know any comparable area eligible, or eager for, admission...
...He is right to challenge the Hegelian idealism that supposes that political systems can be evolved from the idea to the reality, and to suggest that, pragmatically, we ought to attempt to reform or govern the world from existing and proven structures, upward...
...The Council and its staff worked very diligently towards achieving these dual objectives, particularly in relation to the administration of Title VI of the 1964 Act...
...Rather than weaken the Federal government's civil rights program, I believe this reorganization will strengthen it...
...This is the mistake of explaining and analyzing when, in reality, only the most basic facts are known...
...Item: Drawing on the recent precedent of the admission of Hawaii and Alaska to the Union, he suggests that Congress has, as it were, crossed the continental divide, and can continue to admit areas not contiguous to the "old" 48 states...
...Nonetheless, his pie-in-the-sky seems to have been put together with some bad apples—at least according to American history...
...Carerra seems to accept the overall validity of the letter, although he offers no explanation of why, if Castro considered Guevara a threat, he chose to let him live...
...I was now able to inform the President that the initial phase was concluded and the time had come to recommend appropriie realignment of functions...
...The termination of the Council has made it possible for President Johnson to assign Wiley Branton, the Council's Executive Secretary, to the important job of accelerating the pace of voter registration in the South...
...But his insight seems to have led him into dream and fantasy—where pragmatism, which he emphasizes, ought not casually to venture...
...My recent recommendations to the President simply recognized that the Council had completed the task of establishing reliable administrative procedures to determine the nature and extent of each agency's enforcement of Title VI...
...Senator, and William Egan, now Governor, from Alaska...
...None of the above, of course, reflects upon Carerra's assessment of the reasons for Guevara's down fall, which seem to be based on firmer ground...
...i.e., the Vice President...
...Moreover, we have no way of knowing its author or the conditions under which it was written...
...Though both states' populations include large proportions of races other than the Caucasian, a fact which suggests the U.S...
...The new states had been previously Indianoccupied or unoccupied, un-cultivated land...
...Item: Hindus employs the argument, which is really a kind of debating pyrotechnics, that the U.S...
...There is no man in America more fully acquainted with this problem than Mr...
...Milton Hindus is careful to qualify his self-admittedly dreamy proposal for opening up the United States and gobbling up the trouble-spots ("Expanding the American Union," NL, October 25...
...The U.S...
...Branton...
...At the time of the Council's establishment, its principal task was to provide initial leadership in implementing and coordinating the 1964 Civil Rights Act and other Federal civil rights responsibilities...
...CUBA Antonio de la Carerra's recent article on Cuba, "Fidel Castro's New Phase," (NL, October 25) although it contains much that is new, interesting and valid—particularly his analysis of the new Cuban Communist party —commits a very grevious error in his explanation of the disappearance of Che Guevara...
...11197 which established the President's Council on Equal Opportunity last February, namely, the authority to recommend to the President " . changes in administrative structure and relationships, including those for merger, combination, or elimination of agencies, committees, or other bodies ." This provision recognized one important fact of life: the strong likelihood that further organizational changes would be needed in this new field of Federal responsibilities...
...The statement referred to, but badly mangled by Lester, appears on p. 373 of Eisenhower's book, Mandate for Change, and says, "had elections been held as of the time of the fighting [that is, at the time of the Geneva Accords of July,1 1954], possibly 80 per cent of the population would have voted for the Communist Ho Chi Minh as their leader rather than Chief of State Bao Dai.1" (Emphasis mine...
...knew Hawaii and Alaska rather well when it admitted them...
...Lester says in his letter that "Otto Tolischus's article ignores the fact that, as a former President (Eisenhower) and a ranking Senator (Richard B. Russell) have explicitly stated, the Diem regime did not allow unification elections to be held in 1956 because it knew perfectly well that Ho Chi Minh would win them...
...I would not be at all surprised if he dumps Humphrey in 1968 for a softer man...
...The Guevara problem is one that can only be answered, if it can be answered at all, with the passage of time...
...But that argument too is weak: The Union grew because there was room for it to grow...
...DEAR EDITOR CIVIL RIGHTS Regrettably, the authors of the article on President Johnson's reorganization of civil rights responsibilities within the Federal government ("Johnson's Civil Rights Shake-up," NL, October 11) overlooked one important section of Executive Order No...
...John Burns, now Governor, from Hawaii) played perhaps a larger role in winning over Congress than did Hindus" supposed Congressional wisdom...
...There is no reason to assume these responsibilities will not be met fully and faithfully...
...The argument looks better on paper than it is in fact...
...We did not append civilizations, we enabled them to expand...
...Edward Sylvester, one of the most able civil servants in that department, to oversee this operation on a day-to-day basis...
...Secretary Wirtz is totally committed to vigorous administration of this vitally important program and he has appointed Mr...
...We know that Che is gone, and we know that whatever happened to him must have occurred during the spring of this year...
...I will continue to serve as the President's principal advisor on civil rights matters and will be in communication regularly with civil rights leaders and others concerned with this vital question...
...MIKE RUBY VIETNAM R. S. Lester's letter in THE NEW LEADER of September 13 is worthy of comment only because he must be close on to the ten-thousandth person who has misquoted Eisenhower in order to prove a point opposite to the one Eisenhower was actually making...
...This is all that can confidently be said about the subject...
...With the transfer of functions of the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity relating to the government's contract compliance programs to the Department of Labor, Secretary W. Willard Wirtz assumes the authority which previously rested with the Chairman of the President's Committee...
...Seattle, Wash...
...The Civil Service Commission, which now assumes responsibility for equal employment programs in the Federal government, has established a special unit to carry out this assignment...
...The Chairman of the Commission, John Macy, has made this a matter of highest priority...
Vol. 48 • November 1965 • No. 22
