HEADQUARTERS OFFICE: LIBERTY LETTER 998 NATIONAL PRESS BUILDING WASHINGTON 4, D.C. Published as the occasion demands by the LIBERTY LOBBY Number 2 January 13, 1961 KENNEDY FRONTIERSMEN PLEDGED TO SOCIALIZE U. S. Conservative Coalition in Congress Can Save the Day If the Kennedy organization is allowed to carry out the radical Democrat Platform, by 1964 America will be buried in the muck of socialism and inflation. Thankfully, however, this is only half the story. For Mr. Kennedy's victory was so dubious that decisive power to- day is held by a conservative coalition of northernRepub- licans and southern Democrats in Congress. If these men stand together for America and against the Kennedy pro- gram, and if there are no changes made in Congressional Rules, the frontiersmen have no chance of getting their "reforms" passed and the damage they do will be limited to the power of the presidency alone, such as in foreign relations and enforcement of the deeply pink Supreme Court decisions of the past seven years. Even here Congress holds the key! For all of Mr. Ken- nedy's appointments must be approved by the Senate. Us- ually, this is a mere formality. But the Founding Fathers gave to Congress the responsibility of passing on the fitness of presidential appointees for very good reasons. It is now time for Congress to assert every inch of its Constitutional authority. The worst of Mr. Kennedy's appointments should not be confirmed. At the least, they should be delayed. A good fight here will significantly slow down the pace of the frontiersmen. Many observers feel that the appointment of his brother is not only the worst but also the one on which Mr. Ken- nedy is most vulnerable. Nepotism is bad enough, but se- lecting such a violently prejudiced partisan as Robert Kennedy to a job in which impartiality is supposed to be a criterion makes this appointment intolerable. Future issues of the LIBERTY LETTER will discuss Mr. Ken- nedy's 5-point legislative program as well as other "pro- gressive" proposals. But now it is necessary to point