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K Nation's ipitol today is in re- “thlleadérship: Under the, leri¢: of goyernmt it, the present’ set lup-in Washing: ton, Jeadersbip : comes mm” Pearson the. other end.” of Pennsylvania Avenue. Never in my'long history of: covering Washington has the leadership contrast been ‘so great. From the White House have come late, sometimes un- certain moves. The, White House did not .whip ‘a. labor| bill into shape and send it to! }Congress until after Senate! ‘Democrats got the. jump with their own labor bill. The, White! House ‘did not decide on a civil rights bill until after Sen. Lyndon Johnson had intro- duced his own bill. - ‘This is in direct contrast to other administration: th: (Democrat and Republigan Ordinarily, major bills are worked ott: by the White House Jong befote Christmas and sent to Congress during: bet first week in January. Tke| his Cabinet differed o1 Isbor and eli legals, howeve! Rat ihost dynamic figure Capitol “Hill by. all’odds tod. ay is Lyndon .Jobrisbi:‘He’s doing the back-4eat rive He has! ‘& housing bill, bi iba ‘Monetary Fund,’ ts, ‘educational TV, TV, members of Steering and Pol: liey Comimittées,’ plus a major- ity vote of the Sena ean, get away with dictatorship| doing this. On the contrary, it fia pérsviasion and stat q hip, Johhson should Por |s right about this, and the end result would be the sam But what makes Johns pear a dictator isthe contrast! between dynamic. léadership! at one end of Pennsylvania Avenue and hesitation at the other end. | Under the Dome Sensing a tough battle over his confirmation, Admiral chas been making an tute play for some of the| jenators who will vote on him. He arranged a Commerce De- partment ceremony to present the two Senators from Alaska with an official set of weights and measures for the new state. Significantly, Sen. Bob’ Bartlett of Alaska sits on the Interstate. Commerce Commit-: tee which first -votes on Strauss: One Senator whose vote Strau&s can definitely count on-is able, charming: John Pastore of Rhode Island,’ first Italo-American ever to serve in the Senate. During’ Strauss’ feud against Sey. Clint Anderson of New Mex: ico, Strauss went out of his ‘way to cultivate Pastore as an offset to Anderson on the Joint! Atomic Energy Committee. i:Strauss’ staff even’ wrote ‘speeches for Pastore to deliver| on atomic energy You’ \cdlf expect employment Parsons en Tamm Trotter W.C, n Tele. Room —= Holloman Gandy also: igure’ workers will‘be ‘una jobs all Peni jeral boom in ‘busin lanti-nepotism ‘standart (Congressman * ‘Mitchel Mitchell :was,,’ greatest crusader against nepo- em Gore.is now. the ‘Senate's es bay i joeait tone.” . Mitchell tited ‘guste \Thomas. Jefferson’ a saying. In speech after speech Con- gressman Mitchell harangued against Putting relatives “on ithe payroll. < “The people who “elect andl send us here have no such lconifortable and palatial sur- roundings,” Mitchell told Con- gress. “Why should their rep- resentatives become so much preferred over those who pay the Ddill?. No stréani “should undertake to rise above its tote “is indirectly obtaining money” by the; means of false pretenses,”."he ‘continued. “It} His a érime agaltist the tax- payers. It is a .crime - against! America. It is selfishness and greed that resembles the prac- tlees of the rulers of the dark jages. It is modeled after the so<alled divine right of. kings. “Many underpaid clerks are forced to do the work of some fe or.daughter or. son of al Gl or mmesLa2Ud fo NAISSVTONN. SI NIZYSH GINIVINOD NOLLYWYOINI TW & ¥ The Washington Post and Times Herald The Washington Daily News — The Evening Star New York Herald Tribune Imembér who-recélves:mést of} ithe Pay and. ‘the. “who| New York Journal-American — does, t nk real. we ke: ge ets «a New York Mirror peaties oy) mage. § Shine oa 18] New York Dally News Gore inh receded: Albert] New York Post ¢ in the House; | ote Senator. Ge Dene! The New York Times The Worker The New Leader ‘The Wall Street Journal Date icrat, how graduated i greatest deliberative ws ithe world, has tal of five: relatives « i F t fr {