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...least four Senate Democrats with serious presidential hopes. Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson had seemed strangely subdued since the beginning of the 86th Congress, second session. He had neglected to deliver to the Democratic Party conference the personal "state of the union" speech that he usually managed to make just a day or so before President Eisenhower's official State of the Union message. He had, with apparent meekness, given in to the demands of a little group of Senate Democratic liberals that he convene party conferences at their beck and call. He had even held onto his temper when...
...Truly Basic Challenges." At 8 o'clock next morning, the President joined Vice President Nixon, assorted Cabinet members and Congressmen, and 800 other worshipers at the National Presbyterian Church for a communion service on the occasion of the reconvening of the 86th Congress. After the service (conducted by six ministers and 30 elders), the President went to the adjoining parish hall and met with church officials in a discussion of the proposed $20 million new National Presbyterian Church. He looked over the plans for the new building, heard a description by Architect Edward Stone (TIME cover, March...
...offer any bold new program for coping with it. "Let the Democrats come forward with something better than we've got," he says, "and believe me, we'll listen to them." Since the Democrats have no solution either, it seems probable that the second session of the 86th Congress will end with scarcely a nick made in the most glaring domestic problem...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5--Congressional members got ready today to open an election-year session of politicking, legislating, and investigating. The second session of the 86th Congress convenes officially at noon Wednesday with preliminary ceremonies in the Senate and House...
...result the 86th Congress in its first session was faced with "a complacent country that doesn't care and a President who is afraid we'll go broke if we get decent urban renewal, adequate school facilities," and up-to-date public works, Harrison A. Williams, Jr., told the gathering of about 75 students and guests in the Lamont Forum Room...