When Majority Leader Bob Taft and Minority Leader Lyndon Johnson proposed their nominees for committee membership in the Senate last week, one name was conspicuously absent. Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse, who walked out of the Republican Party during the presidential campaign, was not on either list. What's more, all committee places were filled, except for two gaping G.O.P. vacancies on the Public Works and District of Columbia committees, the Limbo of the Senate.
With the stage thus set, Morse nominated himself for a seat on the Armed Services Committee. Never before had a Senator made such a proposal. No one knew...
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