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...superiority over the Russians. Said Gardner: "We have presently at least nine ballistic-missile programs, all competing for roughly the same kind of facilities, the same kind of brains, the same kind of engines and the same public attention." Among the loudest of the critics were members of the 85th Congress, condemning the Administration for skimping on defense spending-yet it was that same Democratic 85th Congress that overrode the President's urgent public pleas and cut the U.S. defense budget by some $2 billion...
...Tennessee-and might have skewered hopes of a Republican Southern wing. But the Democratic Party was in far worse shape. The Little Rock crisis crumbled the shaky foundation of compromise which had underlain Adlai Stevenson's 1956 campaign and the Democratic record in the first session of the 85th Congress. Too late, Democrats last week were beginning to suspect that by attempting to be all things to all factions in the field of civil rights they had faubused badly...
Politically, Orval Faubus stabbed at the heart of his own Democratic Party. During the 85th Congress, Texans Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn had labored tirelessly, skillfully and successfully to avoid a ruinous party blowup over civil rights. They had even contrived to put a Democratic stamp of sorts on civil rights legislation. Now Faubus had undone them-and Democratic politicians, in their acute embarrassment, could only pretend that Faubus did not exist. Lyndon Johnson became unavailable for comment. Grunted old Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives longer than any other man in history...
Equally important was the party turnabout on foreign policy. In the 85th Congress it was the Democrats, who have long made internationalism an article of faith, who stalled the Eisenhower Doctrine and gutted foreign aid. And it was the Republicans, long associated in the public mind with isolationism, who stood with the President in his fight for free-world security...
...such changes, which may be woven into the basic fabric of U.S. political life, the 85th Congress, First Session, may be remembered longer than for its Pushmi-Pullyu legislative record...