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Show iiil- Li-. i -ii i "L-L'i.' JrU,.l..i....l 'Sy deliind tlie JJeaclined I Averill Harriman, be "kicked upstairs" up-stairs" in the State Department or again become U.S. Ambassador Ambassa-dor to Moscow, so Mansfield could replace him and be replaced, re-placed, in turn, in the Senate by someone who could hold the Democratic bloc in line. In the House, Speaker McCor-mack McCor-mack of the President's own Massachusetts Mas-sachusetts is proving to . be no Sam Rayburn in uniting the Democrats, and is already showing show-ing signs of wearying of his heavy new responsibilities. He has given close friends the impression im-pression that he would gladly step down, or at least surrender more responsibilities, if a face-saving face-saving formula is found. One widely discussed idea proposes pro-poses that his political heir-apparent, heir-apparent, Nephew Edward Mc-Cormack, Mc-Cormack, Jr., be given a face-saving face-saving role in the "New Frontier," Fron-tier," following his clash for the U.S. Senate with "Ted" Kennedy, the President's younger brother, in Massachusetts. It is being suggested that U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy Ken-nedy give up the Attorney Generalship Gen-eralship to become the President's Presi-dent's full-time advisor, especially espe-cially in dealing with Congress and untangling the President's dangerously snagged congressional congres-sional relations. He would then be succeeded by Speaker McCor-mack's McCor-mack's nephew, who as Massachusetts' Massa-chusetts' State Attorney General already has more legal experience experi-ence than "Bobby" Kennedy had when he took over the Justice Department. The President is urged to place less reliance on wooing GOP congressional leaders, who, when the chips are down, won't back him on "party issues" anyway. Democratic critics say the President's Pres-ident's wooing of Senate GOP Leader Dirksen has alienated members of the President's own party, watered-down "New Frontier" Fron-tier" legislation and won no actual GOP support. Moreover, most of the President's troubles are in the House. Critical Democrats have also been trying to stress upon the President the fact that his own prestige is closely wound up with the fate of his congressional legislative program. He is being told that he must use his own admitted personal popularity more often to save his legislative program, or at least make his ideas a key political issue, or face an erosion of his popularity for lack of accomplishment. accom-plishment. "The President sometimes acts like a miser with his popularity," the top echelon Democratic Congressman Con-gressman explained in frustration. frustra-tion. "Every President has had to use his own personal prestige to win support for his programs or face loss of both." President Kennedy's image of effective leadership, on which he must run for re-election in 1964, is now being hurt by a failure to get key proposals through Congress. The congressional skirmishes and elections are the first real preliminaries to the '64 campaign. cam-paign. I One top echelon Democratic leader in Congress has told this columnist that President Kennedy Ken-nedy is his own worst enemy in trying to steer his controversial controver-sial legislative program through Congress. "First of all," he says, insisting insist-ing on anonimity, "the President has publicly proposed programs that are entirely too ambitious, hoping that he will at least get part of what he asks enacted by Congress. However, this has largely had the opposite effect of getting congressional dander up" over charges that the White House "is always asking too much, is never satisfied, shows little appreciation for support it does receive and leaves too little actual room for compromise in making its proposals." "There is also considerable sub rosa criticism of the President himself, who seems to be putting put-ting his own Democratic-controlled Congress on the spot in an election year, without publicly public-ly putting his own popularity on the line" by stirring up more support for his program in a year that he, himself, is not running for re-election. Republicans, remembering Harry Truman's scathing 1948 attacks on the GOP-controlled 80th Congress, which he denounced de-nounced as "no good," are now saying the Democratic-controlled 87th Congress is "less than no good" for its lack of accomplishment. accomplish-ment. It's been called a "Goof-Off "Goof-Off Congress." Congress is facing one of its worst midsummer legislative logjams log-jams in recent history. All the President's key legislative proposals pro-posals are being beaten, snagged in the legislative pipeline or facing fac-ing defeat. "Must" legislation beaten or facing doubtful futures include the President's tax reform proposals, pro-posals, medical care for the aged through Social Security, foreign aid, civil rights, UN Bond purchase, his trade bill and his soundly thrashed farm and urban affairs proposals. j Without these, there isn't much left of the "New Frontier." In fact, despite numerical Democratic Democra-tic control of the House and Senate, Sen-ate, Congress is philosophically closer to the middle-of-the-road conservatism of the Eisenhower Administration than the "New Frontier's" dynamic goals. President Kennedy is being urged to effect a quiet shake-up in the Democratic leadership of Congress which Congress itself cannot, because of its tradition-bound tradition-bound practices. There is widespread and sympathetic sym-pathetic criticism of Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield's Mans-field's "genteel" approach toward to-ward his colleagues in seeking passage of the Kennedy legislative legis-lative program. "LBJ would crack the whip and keep Democratic Demo-cratic votes in line. Mansfield is a "nice guy" but no whip cracker." And many Senators themselves say he should have begun overtime sessions to press for more legislative accomplishment accomplish-ment a month or more ago. Mansfield is one of the country's coun-try's best Far Eastern experts. ! He was a professor of Far East-! ern history at Montana Univer-1 sity from 1933 to '43. His recent criticisms of U.S. Far Eastern! policy have given the White j House an excellent opportunity to offer him a key State Department Depart-ment post in overhauling Asian policy. One suggestion has been that the tiring Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs, |