Word: 86th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...political issue of the year had been set by Republican Dwight Eisenhower in his dedication to a balanced budget. Since the heavily Democratic 86th Congress convened in January, few of its members had been more restless within the restraints of the balanced-budget idea than House Speaker Sam Rayburn. He was plainly and openly chafing-and when Mister Sam chafes, he chafes hard. His best opportunity so far to tilt the Eisenhower budget came last week, when the House considered housing legislation. The result was one of the roughest and tumblingest congressional fights in a long while...
Mission Accomplished. The bill breezed through Congress according to schedule: 60-27 in the Senate, 254-131 in the House. Ike promptly vetoed it-exercising his thumbs-down right for the first time in the Democratic 86th Congress. Last February Ike had told a hostile REA meeting in Washington that it was time for prospering REA to give up its subsidy of low-rate Government loans (TIME, Feb. 23). In his veto message he explained that REA had all but fulfilled its mission-96% of the nation's farms have been electrified, more than half of them through...
...soon became apparent that he would always be a "clean-sleeve" cadet, without visible marks for leadership, scholarship or athletics. Once he made the baseball team wearing the catcher's "tools of ignorance," but that ended when he tore a ligament sliding into base. He graduated 86th out of 271 in the class of 1920. Among his classmates: longtime Army Coach Earl Blaik; Thomas D. White, now Air Force Chief of Staff; Lieut. General Francis W. Farrell, now Seventh Army Commander in Germany; and General Henry Hodes. U.S. Army Commander in Chief in Europe 1956-59-Second Lieut. Lemnitzer...
...facing mid-20th century America, said Nixon, is simply that of "the survival of our civilization." What is the immediate answer to that question? Clearly, the policy that "retreat before aggression can only make war inevitable"-a policy followed both by the Republican Eisenhower Administration and by the Democratic 86th Congress ("I specifically want to pay tribute to members of the Democratic Party in the Congress for putting statesmanship above partisanship...
...first rich weeks of the 86th Congress, unfolding the morning newspaper was nothing but pleasure for Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson. Texan Johnson's weighty advice to the Administration on budget and defense policies, and his considerable success in steering the Senate to spectacular compromise on the filibuster and the housing bill, were the talk of Washington. But by last week Lyndon Johnson had become accustomed to finding more headaches in headlines than he had known in years...