January 24, 1967

Baker testifies he was severely 'repremanded,' '60, by Johnson for practicing law while Sen employe; says this explains, in part, why in '63 and '64 he arranged for 4 cos to send checks totaling $31,500 to Bromley with understanding that Bromley would endorse them and give him money; Williams ends direct exam of Baker; Bittman, on cross-exam, seeks to challenge Baker's credibility; Baker puts self in direct contradiction with testimony of Childs, Davis, Marten, Taper on receipt of funds from savings and loans assns and what he did with them

Sen Foreign Relations Com opens hearings on ratification; Rusk and Katzenbach hold risks of espionage small and controllable; Sen Mundt reads lr from Hoover stressing espionage danger but insisting FBI is not recommending course of action or expressing an opinion; Hoover sends lr to Fulbright declining to testify in person on ground it is role of Atty Gen rather than FBI to pass on legis matters

Writes majority ruling voiding NYS laws to bar subversives from faculties and staffs of pss and state colls

Rockefeller says he prefers 'fishbowl' drawings to determine winners instead of horse races, news conf; suggests legis exempting NY from 10% Fed tax; favors lottery operation by Taxation and Finance Dept; holds bank sales best way to prevent tampering; Lt Gov Wilson suggests withholding lottery revenues from Fed Govt pending legis to exempt fishbowl drawing from 10% Fed tax

Dem caucus unanimously elects Travia conv pros; favors adopting Assembly-like rules, which would give most of power to pres; will continue party coms headed by vanden Heuvel and Campbell to prepare for conv; says conv can use Legis facilities to hold down costs