35406 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 21, 1969 about its assailant fairly, accurately, ob­ one of the Nation's best newspapers, the contrary. Their failure to respond would jectively. Milwaukee Journal, and just for good be validating the Agnew criticism. Oh, of course, back on inside page 22 measure he cuffs the city's .other news­ Mr. AGNEW has found an ingenious on the editorial page it will rough him paper, the Milwaukee Sentinel, also a formula for political success. It will be up. But a man as astute as Mr. AGNEW very good paper and one that does its hard for the great newspapers of this will know that the only people who con­ best to play by the best newspaper rules country, great in their efforts to report sistently read the editorials aTe the edi­ of fairness, balance~ objectivity, and no fully, fairly, objectively, and with bal­ torial writers and the people they discuss, sm;tained feuds. ance, to :find a way to meet this without plus a very few more. These papers have complete Milwaukee destroying their principles. Studies repeatedly show the enormous coverage. They go into virtually every It will be a new test of popular under­ readership divergence between a front­ home in the city. An outsider would say · standing and intelligence to see how the page stary, reporting what an AGNEW that the mayor does not have a chance, American people respond to this new says and inside the paper editorial re­ the papers will get him in the long run. technique. I suspect there is nothing porting that what he says is not true. To the great credit of those Milwau­ really the newspapers can do except be The editorial does not have a chance. kee papers, they have not gotten Mayor patient and count on the ultimate collec­ And the good newspaper does not, either. Maier and they will not. By their rea­ tive wisdom of the American people. If This is particularly true because a pub­ sonably objective and comprehensive cov­ there is anything else the TV networks lic official attacking an established news­ erage of Maier's speeches and actions, can do, this Senator would like to hear it. paper immediately becomes a hero. He while berating him editorially, he has is a giant killer. He is taking on the big­ the best of all possible worlds. The peo­ ple of Milwaukee know and like the job AUTHORIZATION TO FILE REPORTS gest, strongest, and one of the richest DURING ADJOURNMENT institutions around. In this :fight he is he is doing. And he gets credit for having the underdog, the New York Mets in the the courage to take on the newspaper Mr. BYRD of West Virginia. Mr. Presi­ world series or Namath's Jets in the Golia th and the savvy to chop them up dent, I ask unanimous consent that it be super bowl. in the process. in order to :file reports on bills and resolu­ And a good newspaper does not have Mr. President, this is not just a Mil­ tions, together with minority and indi­ many friends. One time or another it has waukee story. What has happened in vidual views, during the adjourment of cut up a lot of people and struck out at Milwaukee can happen nationally. the · Senate until 11 a.m. on Monday, a lot of popular prejudices. It has prob­ The Washington Post and the New November 24, 1969. ably taken on veteran groups and the York Times-and other responsible, The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without chamber of commerce, the labor unions, conscientious papers the Vice President objection, it is so ordered. and the farmers. will very likely attack as he moves around Mr. BYRD of West Virginia. Mr. Presi­ And all the people whose groups have the country-will not be intimidated. dent, I suggest the absence of a quorum. been opposed feel-rightly-that they But they will report the Agnew attack The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk are helpless. Unless they have $20 or $30 on them fully. They will continue to re­ will call the roll. million or more to buy a newspaper, they port what Mr. AGNEW and the rest of the The bill clerk proceeded to call the roll. just swallow their frustration and fume. Nixon adminisitra tion does fully and with Mr. PROXMIRE. Mr. President, I ask They for get the times they agreed with as much objectivity as they can get out unanimous consent that the order for the paper. They never forget when they of their reporters. They will measure the quorum call be rescinded. disagreed. · inches on the front page in any cam­ The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without paign involving the administration to objection, it is so ordered. So this man taking on the newspaper make sure the administration has a com­ is their boy. He is :fighting their fight . pletely fair shake. The editorial page will Let me give a case in point. The mayor continue to criticize Mr. AGNEW and Mr. ADJOURNMENT UNTIL MONDAY, of Milwaukee is Henry Maier, I think he Nixon when they disagree. But now even NOVEMBER 24, 1969, AT 11 A.M. is a good mayor. He works hard. He is the criticism will have its benefits for smart. He is a leader among the Nation's Mr. BYRD of West Virginia. Mr. Presi­ Mr. AGNEW, as it did for Mayor Maier in dent, if there be no further business to mayors. Milwaukee. Most remarkable-unlike other mayors come before the Senate, I move, in ac­ So here we have a dimension of the cordance with the previous order, that who are falling out of their jobs right and Agnew attack that has not really been left or squeezing through by paper-thin the Senate stand in adjournment until considered. How inviting this is to all of 11 o'clock Monday morning next. majorities or pluralities-Mayor Maier us in politics. The Vice President's at­ was reelected mayor of Milwaukee in The motion was agreed to; and (at 2 tacks on the television networks is of o'clock and 40 minutes p.m.) the Senate 1968 with more than 80 percent of the precisely the same nature. His over­ vote, the biggest majority any Milwaukee adjourned until Monday, November 24, whelmingly favorable responses indicate 1969, at 11 o'clock a.m. mayor had ever won in the city's history. this. And the Vice President cannot lose. He did this although he had to ask In fact, he found a sure way to get on all for tax increases, and not provide the TV networks simultaneously. REJECTION services he wanted to provide, and al­ Does this mean that the price he will Executive nomination rejected by the though Milwaukee has been plagued with have to pay is to be roughed up by Chet Senate November 21, 1969: as tough and militant a minority move­ Huntley and David Brinkley and Frank ment led by Father Groppi as any city in Reynolds? Of course not. Does it mean SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES the country. Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr., of South he will not be covered in the future on Carolina to be an Associate Justice of the What is Maier's secret? He took on television by the networks? Quite the Supreme Court of the United States. EXTENSIONS OF' REMARKS COINCIDENTAL RACISM tasy. For Americans being racist oriented peoples of color-Chinese, Cubans, Viet4 as they are-have justified the intrusion namese, Koreans. If in truth it is coinci­ HON. WILLIAM (BILL) CLAY militarily into the internal affairs of Vi­ dence, I contend it is racist coincidence. etnam on the pretension that the spread Mr. Speaker, I charge the American OF MISSOURI of international communism must be re­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Government with hypocrisy of the sisted. Further, Americans rationalize highest order. Our troops are dying in Thursday, November 20, 1969 _that it is in the best interest to coexist Asia to prevent a colored minority from Mr. CLAY. Mr. Speaker, many black with the chief architects of this inter­ determining the future of a colored ma4 Americans and peoples of other colors national Communist conspiracy. jority supposedly, and at the same time throughout the world have suspicioned Our country has divided the Commu­ this Government is supporting white mi­ that racial overtones are involved in the nist world into two groups-the good norities in African countries who are Vietnam war. I might add that the sus­ and the bad. And it may just be coinci­ forcibly dominating black majorities. picion is based more on fact than fan- dental that all the bad Communists are Mr. Speaker, I call the attention of my November 21, 1.969 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 35407 colleagues to the following article which IV 9 November letter to a man who has since appeared in the Washington Afro­ (Sixteenth Century) been replaced must refer to Cuban Consul American on November 18. 1969. Lord help me today Eusebio Azque, who left Mexico for Cuba on To do and say, permanent transfer on 18 November, 1963, "QUIET WAR" GROWING four days before the assassination. The world's biggest "quiet war" is growing The kindest things In the kindest way. "Azque was scheduled to leave in October more intense with every p·assing year. but did not leave until 18 November. We do Not much is written on a regular basis by v not know who might have told Oswald that the American press about the guerrilla war Bless, 0 Lord Jesus, my parents, Azque was to be replaced." black Africans in the southern area of the And all who love me and take care of me.