DAVID LAWRENCE AN 'ERA OF RIGHTEOUSNES'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700270035-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 20, 2006
• Sequence Number: 35
• Publication Date: February 28, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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DAVID -LAWRENCE
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Maybe an "era of righteous-. abridged, directly or indirect- and professional affiliations of
h f d 1 overnment members of both houses
whole system of education in. pro em is
_a,,,,,,,,, ,,,,r... ~denial of the money.
that federal money is being federal government. public money and use its own
_r n- ;,,,torment or discretion without
cries of suspicion being voiced inga {he broad wishes of the assumed the right to withhold
benetiting tram iE. , . s,:ai, .,ut' b.h a
I There are, of course, some school boards which pparent-? :.'states, counties and cities. The
A 'n contraven. federal government has.
no "watchdog committee' to, ? . and cities. It maintains t a
;,,,,++ on i 'been any parallel to the
The sums involved in the would hardly e a equa Plenty of' federal money, r
cases that have recently been the Department of Health, Y
in the headlines are trivial ' Education and Welfare today moreover, is going into pro)-
!,''in comparison with the billions ... insists that it doesn't use its ects in different parts of the
of dollars that are flowing' power to intervene in the country which are-politically
ti. from the federal government slightest in the handling of ' ,beneficial to senators and j
to the states and cities, with ,education by states, counties -representatives of those same''
h t 4 states But there has never
the security of political parties -.. g ,
and officeholders. +,. in the educational processes ` flagrant cases are publicly
b d to For ' exposed.
are distributed to all parts of e p
the United States to protect-' -'amendment that the federal. ;.punish its own ? members
overnment shall not interfere unless to be sure, some
ness" has been inaugurated. ly, by t e e era g
Unfortunately, the limelight This proposal is being spon- should be disclosed. Codes of
has been mistakenly focused sored also by Senators George ethics have been proposed, but
on subsidies given to private - ? Smathers, D-Fla. and Sam J. no machinery for pursuing ' t
organizations to protect Ervin Jr., D-N.C., and Rep. ? any violations. is mandatory.
national security. Very little is Robert Sikes, D-Fla. This is undoubtedly due to the
known by the public, however, But even a declaration political nature of Congress
about the huge subsidies that through a constitutional itself and the unwillingness of
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to prevent federal control of might not a ec they m
pubhc?'schools. It would de- ,. with the exercise of discretion. federal function: Thus, far,.,
,;~h,,,.~_ there has been no constitution-3
,tutional amendment designea new consL,tiuLwc,n, aiuCUw"ol'~ here as if it were an accepted
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America, which is supposes to ouic,ais Lu W ILU,,,nu r,., ..~ . , pressure b the federal
be the responsibility of the funds appropriated by Con- ?, Y i
t-ca nna to rin cn for what government to change - a',
taught, the kin of educational 'or,,. some time. e e ,.
~'r -A +hnnnalifien.'! been members -,of Congress,+.,,usUrpau0n.ofpoweri'.~;rt
+. ciare that the rignti , uc eacu ?? my Avuo, a. w-...... -
J. ' state to determine the subjects'' ing funds to school systems . , ; . _al.'. challenge presented to pu .1
th r have ?' an end ? to what is plainly. ; 4.