Word: 84th
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...situation, including the way I felt, and possibly with the health and everything else, as of that moment, then there would be no great excuse for deferring the decision. "I have not that gift of prophecy." Last week the President also: ¶ Praised the record of the Democratic 84th Congress in the field of foreign affairs ("I for one am deeply grateful"), but sharply criticized its score on domestic legislation. Ike reread his list of "must" bills, which he had first read to the reporters last June (TIME, July 11). Of the 13 items on the list, he said. Congress...
Foreign Trade. With northern Democrats supporting the President's program, reciprocal trade legislation was expanded and extended for three more years. But, in perhaps the most significant development of the 84th Congress, many southern Democrats abandoned their traditional free-trade position, bowed to the South's new industrial interests and voted with the protectionist bloc...
This week, as its record was added up (see box), the first session of the 84th Congress could claim some accomplishments, but it had also compiled a considerable list of wretched failures...
...84th Congress, first session, was conditioned by a political fact: its slim Democratic majority had to cope with the immense popularity of a Republican President. Although the Congress worked hard, it had no direction of its own; it could merely attempt, by trimming and modifying, to place a Democratic stamp on the Eisenhower program. The results...
Shavetails. When Lyndon Johnson read the news report of Ike's statement, he lashed back: "We are not going to carry out instructions like a bunch of second lieutenants." In a private conversation with a friend, he spoke of his pride in the record of the 84th Congress. Ironically, in view of his heart attack later in the week, he said he was especially satisfied with the Senate's accomplishments this year because they had been achieved without exhausting night sessions and "without killing any of the old men on my side...