EXTENSIONS O·F REMARKS a TRIBUTE to SENATOR LAUSCHE Nearly 700,000 Votes
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May 13, 1968 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 13037 EXTENSIONS O·F REMARKS A TRIBUTE TO SENATOR LAUSCHE nearly 700,000 votes. He spent next to nothing Medal and responded with an address in that campaign, and he adamantly refused which outlines brilliantly the hopes and to spend much of anything this spring. The fears of America. It is sober but inspir HON. HARRY F. BYRD, JR. people knew where he stood--or they ought ing reading, designed to make us think OF VIRGINIA to know. He had voted for the open housing bill, but he also had sponsored (with strom and act promptly and effectively to pro IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES Thurmond) a tough amendment to punish tect our Nation. I share this message with Monday, May 13, 1968 rioters. He was hard on Vietnam. He was hard, my colleagues confident that it will be in truth, on just about everything. There was found a compelling call to arms. Mr. BYRD of Virginia. Mr. President, mighty little softness in him. The address follows: through the years, FRANK LAUSCHE, the It is especially ironic that Lausche should ADDRESS BY GEN. HAROLD K. JOHNSON, CHIEF senior Senator from Ohio, has demon have been toppled by former Representative OF STAFF, U.S. ARMY, 50TH ANNIVERSARY strated a toughness of spirit and mind John J. Gilligan, for Gilligan was defeated MEETING, AMERICAN ORDNANCE AsSOCIATION, which has won the respect even of those two years ago by young Robert Taft. In the WASHINGTON, D.C., MAY 9, 1968 who oppose the positions he has taken. zoology of politics, Taft is a kitten and Lausche a catamount. I am doubly honored tonight--first by the It can surely be said there have never This time, Gilligan benefited from one of privilege of addressing the American Ord been any strings on FRANK J. LA USCHE. those great efforts that labor can mount in nance Association on the occasion of its He is his own man, and in being that, he Ohio. During his single term in the House fiftieth anniversary and second by your gen is a man of the people in the best sense (1965-66), Gilligan rated a neat 100 per cent erous award of the Crozier Medal. The As of the word. in the scorecards of the AFL-CIO. By con sociation has served the armed forces of the Mr. President, I ask unanimous con trast, his rating from the conservative Amer United States for half a century and has al sent to have printed in the Extensions of icans for Constitutional Action was a feeble ways been held in high esteem by the Army. 7. Gilligan also benefited in Cleveland from General Crozier, a former Chief of Ord Remarks a tribute to Senator LAuscHE the help of Negro leaders identified with nance, devoted his life to moving the Army which was written by the noted column Mayor Carl Stokes. ahead on the SIWelling wave of technology. I ist, James J. Kilpatrick, and published In November, Gilligan will be pitted against challenge the Association to strive for the in the Richmond News-Leader of Satur the Republican Senatorial nominee Ohio's sa.me order of a.chievement in the next fifty day, May 11,1968. Attorney General William B. Saxbe. Conserv years. The technological wave has not yet There being no objection, the article atives who are dismayed by the loss of reached its crest. Proper harnessing of its Lausche may be consoled, to some extent, surging power will take an your skill, cour was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, age and devotion. as follows: by the lively hope of seeing Saxbe elected. Saxbe is known as a pragmatist, a savvy cam I pondered a long time before I decided TRmUTE TO LAUSCHE: OHIO'S BARE-KNUCKLED paigner, a competent middle-of-the-roader what to talk about tonight. Since technology LITTLE GIANT with broad appeal across the Republican and its management are your ma.jor concern, (By James J. Kilpatrick) spectrum. The House elections of 1966 dem I thought perhaps I might discuss the appli WASHINGTON.-Back in mid-April, When onstrated a Republican trend in Ohio; if the cation of management in the Army. How the newspaper editors were having their an momentum can be sUJStained in November ever, in my opinion, we're on the watershed nual consistory out at the Shoreham, I ran Saxbe should win. ' now in a great management revolution in the into Ohio's Senator Frank Lausche and asked But with deference to the gentleman he Army. We've identified our goals clearly and him how he was doing. He rolled those ex won't bring to the Senate the color, 'the we've recently taken some giant steps to press! ve eyes to heaven and crossed his fingers verve, and the bare knuckled spirit of Ohio's ward mastering our resources. As a result, for luck. I promised myself to write a piece little giant. In the lovely hurly-burly of the we're acquiring real confidence in our ability about the old maverick, but other things got Hill, Lausche has fought the good fight. It's to improve their employment. It was just a in the way. Now, dammit, it's too late. He a pity to see him knocked out. matter of finding the handle, really. Now our went down to defeat in Tuesday's senatorial task is one of continued improvements and primary. His departure from the Washington for this reason I've decided against talking scene will be a real loss to the Senate, and to to you further about automatic data proc the country, too. GEN. HAROLD K. JOHNSON AD essing and the budget cycle. While they are Lausche was in a class by himself. Over at the core of our day-to-day operations, I DRESSES AMERICAN ORDNANCE believe an occasion such as this warrants a the years, you came to expect most of the ASSOCIATION ON 50TH ANNIVER Southern Democrats to rack up a ·stoutly Re greater stimulation than a mundane de publican record, but the old warhorses from SARY scription of how computers help the Army. Dixie were secure in their saddles; no one Rather, tonight I want to get very quickly paid much attention. By the same token, you to what I believe to be a much larger sub knew about where Wayne Morse, the Oregon HON. ALEXANDER PIRNIE ject--one that is of the greatest importance cactus, would sink his barbs. Lausche was OF NEW YORK to our Nation today. And, I say at the out different. He voted his convictions with reck IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES set, the way we choose to deal with it will determine the future path of the America less disdain for party labels. He was a con Monday, May 13, 1968 servative, but a restless conservative; he we know now-the America we remember and the America we would like to have. would not stand and be hitched. Mr. PffiNIE. Mr. Speaker, our dis Great day, we will miss him next year! tinguished Chief of Staff, U.S. Army, What I refer to is what I call the American He came to the Senate in 1957, after serving vision. My definition of the American vision Gen. Harold K. Johnson, will soon retire. is not a complex abstract philosophy for in five terms as Governor of Ohio. He had done During his long and proud military a brilliant job in the statehouse. My own tellectuals to debate. It is simole. It is some recollection of Lausche goes back to the fall career his words and deeds have marked thing every man can understand. It is essen of 1951, when the National Conference of him as a great leader. Those privileged tially those things we stand for. It is what Editorial Writers met in Cleveland. He held to know him have admired his clear motivated our ancestors to come to a wild his tough audience spellbound for an hour, thinking, quiet courage and professional and unknown land and gamble everything, with a virtuoso performance on the problems competence. Those qualities have served including their lives, to make it go. It is and prospects of State government. what we read, without innuendoes, in the our country well. Even beyond all this, documents that a few visionary patriots Come to think of it, he always had the we apprEciate his sterling character and wrote--our Declaration of Independence air of a virtuoso. He looked like a solo pianist devotion to high ideals. or a visiting guest conductor-swarthy, his and our Constitution. The Bill of Rights. It hands always in motion, his mobile face General Johnson commands the Army is what we read in the court decisions urging a faster tempo. Over the years, his of the greatest military power in the treaties, laws and ordinances placed on th~ world, but his reliance is not solely on books ever since. We have seen parts of great shock of dark hair turned grey; the them again and again in the Emancipation lines deepened around his eyes and mouth, the weapons or troops at his disposal but Proclamation, and the Charter of the United but he never lost the vitality of 1951. In a upon the moral force our Nation em Nations. chamber of lusty debators, he held his own bodies. This was reflected in his memor with the best. The American vision is nothing more than able talk at the Presidential prayer our fundamental, ethical and moral belief in A good deal was made in the press of the breakfast in February and agair.