Word: 86th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before a joint session of the 86th Congress went the President of the U.S. to make his annual report on the State of the Union. His message was closely reasoned, bluntly presented with occasional flashes of eloquence, and positive in its nature. Dwight Eisenhower urged and set forth a program for fiscal responsibility, not of the sort that stifles growth but of the kind that can stand as a springboard for national progress...
...another year, in different political circumstances, the speech might have been hailed for its firm stand on principle. But in Year 1959 it was met with coolness by the Democratic 86th, as, for example, when Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, with the television eye on him. smothered a yawn at the very moment that President Eisenhower promised to present a balanced budget...
...acknowledged the applause, "Thank you! Thank you!" He sounded well-his voice was firm, alert, vital-as he prefaced his speech by saying Happy Birthday to the presiding officers. Vice President Richard Nixon, 46 that day; Speaker Sam Rayburn, 77 that week. Then President Eisenhower set about "showing" the 86th Congress by refusing-even with the Communist planet orbiting the sun and the U.S.S.R.'s Anastas Mikoyan orbiting through the U.S.-to change the measured pace of his own concept of living with cold war. The keynote of the State of the Union, 1959: "The material foundation...
OUTNUMBERED nearly 2 to 1 in the 86th Congress, the Republican minority in the House of Representatives-as well as the embattled Eisenhower Administration -will lean heavily upon the political talents of the new G.O.P. floor leader, hard-hitting Charlie Halleck, 58, of Rensselaer, Ind. (pop. 5,000). Hoosier state professionals, players in as rough a practical political game as the country knows, rate curly-haired, paunchy Charlie Halleck a tough and ruthless performer, who has been often battered but never beaten in 35 years of office-holding. Old hands in the House, where he is a twelve-termer...
Loyalty oaths are now required of recipients of aid under both the National Defense Education Act and the National Science Foundation Act, which was passed at the height of the McCarthy scare when educators were too timid to protest such obnoxious provisions. The 86th Congress, which is scheduled to consider new educational aid legislation anyway, would do well to remove loyalty restrictions from both bills. Rather than aids to education, loyalty oaths are purposeless and dangerous hindrances to the spirit of the legislation containing them...