Word: 87th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...87th Congress tried desperately hard to die last week-and could not even make a success of that. Just as the members were getting ready to leave Washington for the year, two Democratic Senators raised objections that held the session over until this week. One was Georgia's Richard Russell, making a last-minute fight for a federal laboratory to grade peanuts at Dawson, Ga. The other was Florida's George Smathers, working to save a bill that would grant tax relief to self-employed persons who set up pension plans for themselves...
Issues and Answers (ABC, 3-3:30 p.m.). The record of the 87th Congress is discussed by House Speaker McCormack and Senate Whip Humphrey...
...87th Congress is remembered for nothing else, it should rate history's honor for having passed a foreign trade bill that at long last releases the U.S. from the shackles of protectionism. The same applies to the Kennedy Administration, which patiently but persistently pushed the far-reaching foreign trade bill through Congress that might at any time have balked...
...second session of the Democratic 87th Congress was seven months and four days old. From John F. Kennedy's point of view it had accomplished almost nothing, and was not likely to improve on that record. Frustrated and disappointed, but determined to get political ammunition if not action, the President was still calling on the Congress to get to work...
Frustration is a better word. Relaxing at week's end in Maine, Kennedy could not forget that the 87th has already made a shambles of his program. Astute politician that he is, he knew that the question whether there would be a tax cut was not in his power of decision. That power rested with the stalemated, defiant Congress. And in that Congress it is actually the veteran Democratic leaders who have been most effective in their opposition to the New Frontier's proposals...