GOOD GROUSING, GROSS!

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200650022-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: May 12, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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MAY 12 1966
Goad Grousing, Gross!
White House Pres_ wmtary,...,Bill
REP. H. R. GROSS (R., Ia)., a
Mks, watuS,i..,..aridthe.__,.State
Federal penny-pincher and unabashed De artment wife whose high-fashion
grouch, this week asked: "Why should : re as_soo ~YCang~hat" Ae a , ;
the Smithsonian Institution, a tax- sent home ,._to, ??put_on- Some_ clothing' I
i supported agency, be turned into a... Gross'_special.fire. 1
dance hall fora fund-raising' effort by Use of the Smithsonian to further.
a private group?" financial support of the arts probably .,
He referred to a Washington opera is . justified, altho Rep. Gross' point is
benefit, a midnight champagne dinner- good in principle. But we'll grouse right.
N :dance patronized by Cabinet ' officers,'..'a ong with Gross about those kooky.
t;ong'ressional leaders and what he. "clothes and far-out dances. They'd be
called the "mink coat s ":.'Their. ,;-,better - left to the kids. There's
"exhibitionist dancini e. - .Argued,,; ;something about a high Federal official
woo have been more appropriate, to , . Going the, frog 'that fails. to'. Inspire
downtown:burlesque ;~; 11 yc3tizen eonfid6nce in Government.
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