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10432 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 6, 1970 Black. and nothing comparable to the any been presented subsequent to the before the unfinished business is laid be brilliant public service of Senator Byrnes hearings. fore the Senate. that preceded his brief service on the I hope I am mistaken in my assess Supreme Court. ment of Judge Carswell. The demands Comparisons are also inevitable with upon the Court during the remainder of ADJOURNMENT TO 10 A.M. two southerners who have been denied this century will be great. It is quite pos TOMORROW a place on the Court in this century sible that this nominee, if confirmed, Mr. BYRD of West Virginia. Mr. Presi Judge John J. Parker of North Carolina might well serve for most of the balance dent, if there be no further business to and Judge Clement Haynsworth of South of this century. This has been a difficult come before the Senate, I move in ac Carolina. decision and I have come to have regrets cordance with the previous order, that Dean Pollak, of the Yale Law School. about a system that has subjected three the Senate stand in adjournment until when pressed for such a comparison of of the last four nominees to the type of 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. the nominee with Judge Parker said as national debate that has resulted. Never The motion was agreed to; and Cat 2 follows: theless, for me there remain unanswered o'clock and 55 minutes p.m.> the Senate Senator, Judge Parker has been very much questions about the nominee. I believe adjourned until tomorrow, Tuesday, in my mind because though I know there is we must seek excellence and require can April 7, 1970, at 10 a.m. a variety of view about him and in his later dor from those who are to administer years he wrote a number of opinions with justice on the highest court in our which I disagree, I have always thought of Nation. him as a Judge of very considerable distinc I cannot consent to this nomination. CONFIRMATIONS tion, and it has been to my mind a very real question as to whether the Senate was Executive nominations confirmed by the Senate April 6, 1970: not in error in declining to consent to his THE PENDING BUSINESS nomination. But the adjectives you use in AMBASSADORS referring to Judge Parker, the brilliance, the Mr. BYRD of West Virginia. Mr. Presi Arthur K. Watson, of Connecticut, to be excellence, the ability that you properly as dent, what is the pending business? Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotenti cribe to him, are not, I respectfully suggest, The PRESIDING OFFICER. The pend-. ary of the United States of America to adjectives that can appropriately be at France. tributed at this stage to this judge, the ing business is Senate Resolution 211, seeking agreement with the Union of Walter C. Ploeser, of Missouri, to be Am nominee who is now before you. (Transcript, bassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Page 248) Soviet Socialist Republics on limiting of the United States of America to Costa offensive and defensive strategic weapons Rica. I supported Judge Haynsworth for and the suspension of test flights of re reasons now a matter of record. It is my William D. Brewer, of Connecticut, a For entry vehicles. eign Service officer of class 1, to be Ambassa view that the senate erred in failing to dor Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of consent to his nomination. While study the United States of America to Mauritius. ing the Haysnworth record I was im PROGRAM FOR TOMORROW William C. Burdett, of Georgia, a Foreign pressed that detailed briefs were pre Service officer of the class of career minister, sented by nationally respected legal Mr. BYRD of West Virginia. Mr. Presi to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Pleni scholars as evidence of Judge Hayns dent, as a reminder to Senators, may I potentiary of the United States of America worth's abilities and, in general, praise of say that immediately upon the disposi to the Republic of Malawi. his judicial work in various areas of tl].e tion of the reading of the Journal on DEPARTMENT OF STATE law. Read cumulatively, they presented tomorrow, under the previous order the David M. Abshire, of Virginia, to be an the portrait of a diligent, able and able senior Senator from South Caro Assistant Secretary of State. thoughtful judge with a quality in his lina (Mr. THURMOND) is to be recognized U.S. ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT work that assured he could serve with for not to exceed 1 hour, following which AGENCY distinction on the Supreme Court of the it is to be assumed that the majority Vice Adm. John Marshall Lee, U.S. Navy, United States. I find no comparable evi leader will set aside a. period for the of Virginia, to be an Assistant Director of the dence in the Carswell transcript nor has transaction of routine morning business, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS BOOM IN ABILENE EVIDENCE Abilene, over three-quarters of a mil.. They stand silently at the foot of his sim AMERICANS STILL LIKE IKE lion citizens have paused to pay their re ple chapel crypt, heads slightly bowed, re membering that 35-mlllion-vote smile. spects and ponder the significance of his They visit the adjacent museum to relive work, his life, and how he lived it. Abi the drama of the general's longest day, tiptoe HON. CHESTER L. MIZE lene has welcomed visitors to its historic through the library housing his presidential OF KANSAS places with warmth and quiet dignity be papers, troop through his boyhood home to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES fitting the memory of the general. soak up the atmosphere of an America that was less complicated and more cocksure. Monday, April 6, 1970 Mr. Speaker, on Thw-sday, April 2, the New York Times carried an article about Because Americans by the thousands, still Mr. MIZE. Mr. Speaker, a little more Abilene-1 year after Ike came home to like Ike, Abilene is prospering. Since April 2, than a year has passed since the death 1969, the days of his burial, cash receipts rest. I know all Americans will be inter at the several dozen local restaurants, mo of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Our former ested in reading this piece for it reflects tels, gas stations and stores have increased President and general of the Army rests some of the reasons why I am deeply 10 to 30 per cent, the biggest spurt since peacefully, his labors done and his ac honored and highly privileged to repre 1867, when the Union Pacific laid its tracks complishments remembered by Ameri sent the citizens of Abilene in the Con into town and started hauling out the Texas cans as a testament to their country's gress. longhorns coming up the Chisholm Trail. greatness. The Times article is reproduced as Some of Abilene's 8,500 residents, such as Ike is buried in a simple chapel crypt follows: Ernest Morse, president of the Citizens Bank, at Abilene, the town that he grew up in a.re beginning to use the word "boom" to BOOM IN ABILENE EVIDENCE AMERICANS STILL describe the economic changes. In a recent and remembered through his life with LIKE IKE lunchtime visit to the Chamber of Com fondness. Eisenhower Chapel is near the (By Drummond Ayres, Jr.) merce office to get the la.test facts and fig museum that contains the personal ef .ABILENE, KANs., April 1.-The charisma. is ures. Mr. Morse said, "there's a little boom fects and papers of a life of selfless serv still there, even in death. underway. Net worth is up just about ice and dedication to good works. Nearby, In the year since Dwight David Eisenhower everywhere." also, is the Eisenhower boyhood home, was brought back to this old frontier town Other indicators tend to support Mr. typical of the humble origins of many of and lowered into the rich prairie soil of which Morse's view. our greatest leaders and most of Amer he always seemed so much a part, more than Two new chain restaurants recently ica's heroes. 782,000 people have come here to pay their opened on the outskirts of town, where the In the year since Ike was buried in respects. big Victorian houses with their wide, grassy April 6, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 10433 lawn give way to a scattering of gas stations play all, from Glen Miller and Lawrence Welk the rising flood of imports into this Na on the edge of an endless expanse of to Tom Jones and Johnny Cash. tion, gains which are being made at the wheatfl.elds. "The only thing we don't play ls the stuff expense of our own domestic prosperity. In the heart of the business district, a with the bad lyrics about sex or dope. I take Competition is healthy, an open mar $140,000 fried chicken carry-out store 1s all that off the air -because the kids ought not shiny glass and plastic amid the drab rows to hear it." ket is good, but the trade policies of this of two-story brick stores and the hulking Whether Mr. Lyon's censorship has had a Nation in recent years have led us gray grain elevators that dominate the sky beneficial effect is anyone's guess. Whatever straight down the path from :flourish to line for miles around. the case, the young people of Abilene seem at perish. Thirty-five new motel rooms have just been -times to be almost as conservative as the old We all know about the $7 and $8 added, giving the town more than 350 beds.