TRIBUTE TO SENATOR MCCARTHY FOR HIS BOOK 'THE LIMITS OF POWER'

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• Publication Date: October 18, 1967
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he Bald ? "7 the interest of econom
and the . ~._. .__ ______ _ ___ _ __ __ _ ._ _
y
I ask unanimous consent that the New
Annex be withheld until such ime as the ' made on Amerca's foreign policy-"had his
budgetary picture becomes cl rcr, and the ideas and attitudes been translated into York Times editorial entitled, "Promises'
demands on the Federal oliar are re- political reality."
To Keep" be printed in the RECORD at this
ditced _
Mr. Schultze's reaction t his communica-
tion seems to have been, iderstandably, an
amazed silence. There is most no precedent
for a legislator asking tat funds be with-
held from public wor s-that sacred Con-
gressional institutio the pork barrel-par-
ticularly when loca d in the middle of the
legislator's home ongressional district.
Perhaps Mr. F ton's sacrificial gesture
to behalf of restr ping Federal expenditures
will not help to et him re-elected. But even
if It goes down a footnote to Congressional
annals as "Ful n's Fiscal Folly" it certainly
ought to mak him remembered as the man
who put the nation's economic health'ahead
of a courthouse annex.
rTRIBUTE TO SENATOR MCCARTHY
FOR HIS BOOK "THE LIMITS OF
POWER"
Take the hypothesis and let the credit for aijtun ueuig jio ouiecuon, the editorial
it go. Here are some of Mr. McCarthy's ele-.. was ordered to be Printed in the RECORD,
mental conclusions: First, the United States as follows:
should work zealously through the best in- PROMISES To KEEP
ternational agencies. Second, our great arms The clearest thing about the Thieu-Ky
ment exports and, the C.I.A. could use more regime in South Vietna
i
th
m
s
e long list of
Capitol Hill supervision. Third, the Senate commitments it has made to promote pacifi-
Forelgn Affairs Committee-on whi
h M
c
r cation llitil
.,oca secury, soca reform and eco-
McCarthy serves-might well do more ad- nomic development in that war-ravaged
vising and less consenting. country The
sonian, with the last a possible exception. At ., allies at,--, the top-level conference ijat7Hono-
any rate, finding the Senate Foreign Rela- lulu, Manila and Guam. They were made
tions Committee as well as the Presid
t
en
an. again i thlti
.ne eecon campaign.
!the state Department breathing harder down Now Ambassador Ellsworth unker 1s
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his neck at the United Nations would perhaps exercising pressure on the Sat n Govern-
occasionally have troubled even Mr. Steven- ment to make certain that these long-
son's urbane mind.
promised reforms are
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carred out. It
Now we're off to the all-too-human races. is both appropriate as ntial that this.
With Mr. McCarthy as our expert guide. we he done The
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this Nation and in this body is the senior courses, too. Not everyone would expect the lished in the honesty efficiency of the
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GENE J. MCCARTHY. Senator MCCARTHY is These are tasks ly Vietnamese can ac
Viet missile lunge in Cuba that included Mr. complish, and Sal n's performance to date
a man of many and diverse talents. He is Stevenson's most famous hour of political has fallen far sho of the generals' pledges,
equally at home in the world of ideas and reality.
Alter a hard loo at thitti in
e suaon south
actions. He is an eloquent speaker, a wise . Mr. McCarthy is as troubled as any of us by Vietnam last summer, a Congressional
and witty man. In addition to'this, Seri- the Vietnamese tragedy. He's against the war, . watchdog com ittee re
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:
ator MCCARTHY is an author of real dis- but he's not about to join either the vic- "We are de 1 concerned about the lack
" tinction and has recently authored a book ? tory-at-any price or the peace-at-any-price of meaningf 1 pro
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and
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orm in the
. entitled "The Limits of Power: America's loIi ions, grthy's rear-view mirroring, the lagging an floundering pacification pro-
Role in the World." char in gram; in dealing with the problem of
g g perspe
ctives tt gives past prob-
This book has been reviewed very fa-
refugees, fiction ,and land reform; in the
Y lees stand out instructively. Retroactively,
,__ conduct the e]ectiona, and in the over-all
vorably by the New York Times which he's not against. America's
the
- ....6, ..- ",b~.. Purluejsnip has been ' ..I
The halo is wtdi,ten by a i elistQr who lint r: =_hitPS it was ?^_rlentas Jefferson Who
W0@4 an muttuti Qf31111i1uma@1 no united-
WWII for Ay out yonder ~efibu?~~
has served on the Ctliiitiitte~ fin i~~r~i
en
ie made tits M dit
t
safe for
Amer a etranear
Relations for many years, a man who has
y pirates.
demonstrated before the Nation his grasp "A nation," fighting the Ba, "has na natti on," Mr. McCarthy says, ',has pres-
of the complex foreign policy that faces' tige according to its merits America'
Orates llde mfire tiiitfi fulfilled iii piedgesi
-President-elect Thieu and Vice President-
elect Ky have yet to do so.
the Nation and who has demonstrated tribution to world civilization must be more
his courage In speaking his mind. than a continuous HOW CONGRESS CAN CUT
performance demonstra- SPENDING RESPONSIBLY
Mr. President, I ask unanimous con- tion that we can police the, planet:'
sent that the book review written by The rub, this book suggests, is that one, Mr. PROXMIRE. Mr. President, when
Charles Poore, which was published in' . man's policing is another man's blow for lib- Congress iS confront
d
ith
e
w
the need to
the New York Times this morning, be erty. But we don't want E. B. White's parable reallocate or cut Federal spending, two
of another planet policing us, or even liberat
printed in the RECORD
lt
.
a
ernative budgetpihi
-arng mecansms
There being no objection, the book re- ing us, to come true. can be used. The traditional method is
view was ordered to be printed in the that of the meat ax; Congress cuts some
RECORD, as follows: THIEU-KY PROGRESS IN PACIFICA- specific amount from every spending re.
ONE MAN'S POLICING Is ANOTHER MAN'S TION ESSENTIAL IN VIETNAM quest, and ' successful programs are
LIBERATING Mr. PROXMIRE. Mr. President, re-' slashed as much as less-pro uctive proj-
(By Charles Poore) Al
eats. For example; poverty Aid education
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that w u
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i remember Mr. White's paragraph trope greater effort is put in they so-called from curtailed, yet the disastrous results
from The New Yorker when I face each sea- ? other war-social ref economic de- meat-ax red tions in these vital
son's clamor of serious books on rugged areas often mea higher Government
world velopment
land
r
affairs. They want peace but they nq
ment of health. the met -ax ov ' the long run. In short,
uite, achievement,
impro
produce it. And with each author doing his It is in theci ar as .,,1, +, _..__ the meat-ax re is worse than the ill-
thin,. +h.. ,..+....___._.._ .. i'__i. _.
wholly agree on what we must do to be saved. This morn' g's New York Times points of specs establish a rational system
cyn
egk priorities. Budget requests
Yet all books add something to- what we' out that ? t Thieu-K government can be
should know
The usef
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ones honor claritydt
erms of some paff
. mae ex live promise
s in these areasyo Great stuff may lie buried in jab.bec'wocky and tha Ambassador Bunker is pressing lowered, 'es. When expenditures must be
prose, but it's tough to unearth it there. A Congress can cut first the
happy medium lies in "The Limits of Power; hard f these commitments to be kept: lower rated programs.
S~FAA, c's Role in the World," by Senatof If a are ever to have any hope of Tools for, such a mechanism already
ce J, McCarthy, a Minnesota Democrat, ending this tragic war, the South Viet-. exist. Many of them have been incorpo-
Agree`with him or not, he's clear, quick; and namese Government must move -V-
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