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Several members of the Faculty agreed yesterday that the 87th Congress had solved very few of the problems which had faced it, and that President Kennedy would continue to be plagued by the Southern conservatives disrupting his own party. They disagreed, however, on Kennedy's effectiveness as a leader...
...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...
...lingering end was characteristic of the 87th's second session. This was still the overwhelmingly Democratic Congress of which President Kennedy recently boasted: "No Congress in recent years has made a record of progress and compassion to match this." But Kennedy must have been smiling through his tears as it slowly drew to a close. From an Administration viewpoint, the 87th in 1962 could only be considered an obstinate, balky, frequently frustrating beast. It gave Kennedy one great victory and a few smaller ones; it was marked by a great batch of half-loaf compromises; and it turned...
...shining hour of the 87th came when it passed the best, boldest foreign trade bill in U.S. history, giving the President long-term authority to slash all tariffs by at least 50% and to remove many tariffs completely. At a time when the reciprocal trade laws born in the 1930's have been proved totally inadequate, the new bill was realistically aimed at enabling the U.S. to compete and thrive in the world's marketplace...
Earlier, on arrival at the Greater Cincinnati Airport, across the Ohio River in Kentucky, Kennedy blamed the shortcomings of the expiring 87th Congress on the Republicans. "I have spent the last two years on issue after issue affecting the welfare of the people of Kentucky and the welfare of the people of this country, and seen us win issue after issue by three or four votes, or seen us lose issue after issue by one or two votes in the House or the Senate. Eighty percent of the Republicans in the House voted against a minimum wage...