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Thursday, Sept. 10, 1970
University Daily Kansan
O'Brien Blasts Agnew, Nixon
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPI)—Lawrence F. O'Brien, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Wednesday charged Vice President Spiro Agnew with campaigning fulltime for Republicans while assignments created for him in Washington go uncovered.
O'Brien demanded that eight Nixon administration officials and staff members, who he said also were campaigning for Republicans, take a leave of absence from the government payroll until the Nov. 4 general election
O'Brien opened a two-month nationwide tour in behalf of Democratic candidates in Missouri with a news conference in Kansas City and a fund-raising dinner for Sen. Stuart Symington, D-Mo., in Farley, Mo.
In remarks prepared for the
dinner, he said "Nixonomics" was leading the country to a 10 per cent mortgage rate on houses.
He said the eight members of the Nixon administration who should go on the Republican party payroll were: Bryce Harlow and Robert Finch, counselors to the president; Donald Rumseil, director of the Office of Economic Opportunity; Herbert Klein, White House communications director; Harry Dent and Murray Chotiner, White House aides, and Patrick Buchanan and William Safire, speech writers.
"If these men are not now on official leave of absence from the government payroll until election day, I now insist that they take such leave and draw their salaries from the Republican party," he said.
WASHINGTON (UPI)—House investigators said Wednesday their inquiry into impeachment charges against Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas has been hobbled by the Justice Department and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Information Is Lacking In Douglas Investigation
man Emanuel Celler, D-N.Y. said: "We have not been very successful in getting the information. We have been very unsuccessful."
A House judiciary subcommittee which has conducted the fourmonth-old investigation asked both agencies some time ago for information in their files about Douglas. But Judiciary Chair-
The subcommittee's mandate expired to look into possible impeachment Aug. 24, while the House was in recess. Celler refused to say whether it would seek an extension, recommend dropping the investigation or propose some other course.
House Votes Pay Raise For Blue Collar Workers
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The House Wednesday approved a $230 million-a-year pay raise for 850,000 blue collar government workers despite a warning that it could cost 40,000 of them their jobs.
On a 231 to 90 roll call vote, the House sent to the Senate the legislation authorizing pay increases for the so-called wage board employees that are scattered around the nation.
"This Congress has voted sizeable pay increases for its classified workers and sizeable increases for its military personnel," said Rep. David N. Henderson (D-N.C.), whose House Manspower Civil Service Committee drafted the bill. "It's only fair that we do the same for our wage board workers."
Rep. Edward J. Derwinski, (R-
Wage board workers, who mainly do maintenance work, receive salaries based on the prevailing pay for workers in private industry doing comparable work.
Ill.), said the Pentagon told him at least 40,000 blue collar workers would be dropped if the bill becomes law.
O'Brien attacked Agnew at length in the news conference.
"This week Mr. Agnew will set out across the nation once more. Back in Washington, meanwhile, what is happening to those vice presidential assignments created by the Congress and the President?" he said.
"What happens to Mr. Agnew's cabinet committee on school desegregation when the vice president hits the road? How much
"What of the President's Council on Youth Opportunity, which Mr. Agnew heads and which failed to lift a finger this year in the critical areas of finding summer jobs for young people?"
"What of the councils on Space, Indian Opportunity, Physical Fitness? And what about the critically needed Office of Intergovernmental Relations for which Mr. Agnew is responsible, but which, in 18 months, has utterly failed to bring the federal government into meaningful contact with state and local governments?"
Watson Library Adds Art Stack
The fall semester has seen the opening of an art library on the third floor of the Watson Library.
According to David Heron, director of libraries, it has brought together all the books on art that were previously scattered around campus. Some were in the department of painting and design, others in the art museum or in the engineering and architecture units, while still others were in the stacks at Watson itself.
time has Mr. Agnew given to these official duties as he remains a heartbeat away from the presidency and supposedly perparing himself for that position in the event of tragedy?"
The project was initiated by the art history department two years ago when Heron first came to Kansas. As he puts it, "I was assailed by two History of Art professors" to begin the project.
The centralized art library was made necessary by the recently established doctoral program in History of Art.
Arthur Katz, dean of the School of Social Welfare, is attending the International Conference held in the Philippines from Aug. 30 to Sept. 12.
A combination of a Republican president and a Republican Congress would be "ruinous" to the nation, he said. He told Democrats it was their responsibility to give the "do-nothing" administration a "do-something Congress."
Welfare Services Conference Topic
He said Nixon inherited a healthy economy but had made a mess of what he inherited.
At the fund-raising dinner for Symington, O'Brien said that things which should be going up such as the stock market, corporate profits and real spendable income, were going down while things that should go down such as unemployment, prices and interest rates were going up
Katz is one of the two U.S. members of the Commission of the Profession of Social Welfare to attend this meeting. The meeting will focus upon identifying the broad range of professionals involved in the planning and delivering of social welfare services and to organize better ways of integrating social welfare.
Referring to a Will Rogers remark, O'Brien said Republicans were "putting a new twist on things. If they keep it up, we may become the first nation to be saddled with a 10 per cent mortgage on the poorhouse when we get there."
He said Nixon was "doing in two years what it took President Hoover four years to accomplish."
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