Word: 87th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...midweek, White House aides watching Capitol Hill saw storm signals, reported growing evidence that the President's legislative program might be in for heavy weather with the 87th Congress. President Kennedy decided to cut short his Florida stay and fly back to the capital for a series of conferences with key Congressmen. Chief among those the President wanted to see was Arkansas' Representative Wilbur Mills, whose Ways & Means Committee must pass on several of Kennedy's prime proposals (see following story). Then, at week's end, Kennedy flew to Columbus for a $100-a-plate Democratic...
First Realization. On the home front, realization came quickly to Jack Kennedy that not everything was going to come up roses. The 87th Congress had convened with lopsided Democratic majorities-but those majorities were deceptive, particularly in the House of Representatives, where conservative Democrats (mostly from the South) and Republicans saw Kennedy's squeaky win over Dick Nixon as less than a national mandate. The first major fight in Congress was over the Kennedy Administration's all-out effort to liberalize the House Rules Committee. The resolution carried by a scant five votes-and right then and there...
Back home, U.S. Congressmen study the prevailing winds-and trim their political sheets accordingly. Last week, after a three-month vacation, the 87th Congress was preparing to reconvene in Washington, and its members talked about their barometric readings...
...domestic issues, the Administration's medical-care-for-the-aged program has strong support in scattered urban areas including Detroit, Denver. Miami and Boston, but legislators elsewhere have found little interest. Federal aid to education, a prime Administration aim in the first sessions of the 87th Congress, seems all but dead. Complains liberal Democrat Gorman: "The general public seems to have lost interest in it." Adds his California colleague, Democratic Representative John J. McFall: "The teachers who you would assume to be militant about it don't take the trouble to tell us about...
...same courageous thrust as in the wartime posters, but the sturdy, bulldog head was sunk deep into slumped shoulders, and the pale blue eyes were watery and weary when Sir Winston Churchill tottered slowly into the House of Commons as Big Ben struck 3 on his 87th birthday. "Hear, hear, hear," rolled out the traditional Commons welcome, until it beat like a native drum. Then came a few most unparliamentary hurrahs (with nary a reprimand from the bewigged Speaker), and the "right honorable member for Woodford" slumped into his lifetime front-bench seat. A government spokesman saluted the occasion...