Oklahoma'S: Man of Confidence

OKLAHOMA'S

A year ago, the beefy senior Senator from Oklahoma told John Kennedy that he would fight the President all the way on the Administration's medicare bill. Last week, good as his word, Democrat Robert Samuel Kerr, 65, paid off on his promise. No man to tangle with, Kerr buttonholed just enough of his Democratic colleagues, and with a forceful eloquence turned them in his direction. Kerr, co-author of the Kerr-Mills medicare bill, was out-and-out against any other legislation that would undercut his own, and furthermore, was dead set against any new bill that was hinged to social security.

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