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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...
...stalling for?" Speaker Rayburn gently replied that there had been no unnecessary delay. Then he carefully studied the Democratic side to make certain he had no more converts there. The results were announced-the bill passed. 206 to 201. After the liveliest political fight of the 84th Congress, the farm bill was sent to the Senate, where it has only an outside chance of passage-with or without peanuts...
...With Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson skillfully backing him, George has effortlessly become the outstanding figure of the 84th Congress: ¶ He led the Formosa resolution, the SEATO pact and the Paris agreements to overwhelming Senate approval. When he arose to speak on the Formosa resolution one January day, there were worried, even hostile faces in the chamber. Nearly a score of Democrats were ready for a last-ditch fight against the resolution, and several Republicans had grave doubts. By the time he sat down after a brilliant oratorical display, the opposition had been shattered. Next day the resolution passed...