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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000800140006-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 10, 2009
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: August 11, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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WASHINGTON.POST
AUGUST 11..,
a inside,
Report.. By Rowland Evans and
Robert Novak
TlieYccir molinasky sacrifice
When the antipoverty bill
sailed through the House
last Saturday in President
Johnson's greatest legisla-
tive triumph, a good many
Democratic Congressmen
The truth is that they
doubt that the bill, an ex-
hen~ive grabbag of new and
old spending programs, will
a
Saturday news conference-" in administering '; nessman friends, including
Li-F, i armo- Johnson used all his busi?
President's claim , at . his linsky would have no
t'
A dam Yarmoli Yarmoli L" G rsry[ng the conservationist
nsky. a nsky wa:a h.i,,,. t, - _
Sacrifice. war. er the flee was not necessary. By
.,L,;..- -- m....c.ncan vet- IRONICALLY, the sacri-
erners, he practiced human erans' Committee ft
r.a.. ai;ainst poverty. Many -LL cartoons, is the sub- Yarrnolinsky's scalp as the
Democrats supported it Ject of constal}t vilification -price of voting for the bill.
only out of . election-year by Gen. E d w 17i Walker, R. Sargent Shriver, the an-
loyalty to the President. John Birch zealots and the tipoverty chief, resisted to
What really rankled the
liberal Democrats in: the fright peddlers. Charges of the end. He was overruled
House, however, was the disloyalty are, of course, by President Johnson after
price that Mr. Johnson absurd. He, has a public top House leaders warned
thought necessary tn nay record of anhim: Yarmnlin-L.. ..- -
Yarmolinsky at that stage.
In their impotence, they-
sent an ultimatum to the
White House warning that
they would tolerate no
more such concessions.
Though it all came as a
surprise to t he liberals,
Southerners - particularly
the North Carolina delega-
his duties as -a Defense No sooner had -Landrum
Department administrator, taken his seat than a
i he a c t u a l l y joined the l i b e r a l Representative,,
Poverty task force months surprised' and infuriated,
ago-and was scheduled to rushed up to ask what au-
be deputy director of 'the.:", thority he had for this
program after the b i l 1;'?, pledge. Landrum's reply,
passed. In fact, he :no ]on. the authority came from
ger has an ;office, at the President Johnson himself.
Pentagon. That night, Indignant
YARMOLTNSKY v, h o ! liberals who were the bill's Stron has the misfortune of ` the office of R Rep. James met G.
;looking like the anarchist O'Hara of Michigan. They
bomb thrower; in old pout. could do nothing to save.
president of the Pennsyl-
One liberal Republican
Congressman, who regards
?uugepoage, was pressured
by calls _ .from Republican
Industrialists and newspa-
per editor
s In his district
t
.
None of them had the
li
t
s
gh
est Idea what was in
the bill, but all urged his
support. Deciding discretion
was the better part of valor,
he ended pp voting for it.
But the Yarmolinsky sac-
rifice
was a natural cul-
mination of the fr nzied {
manner in which the
poverty bill had )(,,en
pushed from the beginning.
Mr. Johnson had an un-
derstandable desire to iaush
through Congress one ma-
jor bill that had. his awn.
not John F. Kennedy's
,
imprint. Above all the
legislation.
TL v
the poverty paclcarc last 1 11
had nothing to do with ' 'I
Viet-Nam, . the roughest I
y
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