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...90th Congress ended its cantankerous first session last week, Lyndon Johnson gave the nation a preview of his re-election campaign. A dominant theme in 1968, he made clear, would be the mass-and the meaning -of legislation he has extracted from Capitol Hill since he took office. And for whatever laws the President wanted and failed to get, Republican obstructionism would take the blame...
...Buggy. Johnson gave credit to the 90th Congress, but, he preached, "we need great Congresses again, not just good ones." And in his choicest invective, he excoriated the Republicans, particularly in the House, for making the 90th's first session un-great. "In vote after vote," he declared, "the House members of the other party lined up like wooden soldiers of the status quo." Rather than provide constructive alternatives, the Republicans sought to bury good bills "in a blanket of rhetoric beneath a wave of reaction...
Their trouble set in when they attempted to make a politically effective response. In a sleepy, somewhat supercilious dialogue, Ev and Jerry spent most of their time defending the Democratic-controlled 90th Congress, berating the Administration for inflationary policies, and bragging that because of added Republican strength, the 90th is able to stand up to the President where the 89th had not. Dirksen rightly observed that while many Democrats backbit the President on Viet Nam, "the wooden soldiers have not only been sustaining the Commander in Chief, but have been sustaining the live soldiers in Viet...
After the Republican victories in the 1966 elections, the story seemed des tined for a speedy end. Not so. Last week, in the most dramatic victory the Johnson Administration has had in the 90th Congress, the House of Representatives approved the poverty program by the biggest margin yet. The original script* was hardly more miraculous...
...President's new militancy-fueled perhaps by Democratic successes in last week's big-city elections -was aimed at both the inactive 90th Congress and the hyperactive antiwar dissenters. Other Administration voices were equally combative. Home from Southeast Asia, Hubert Humphrey was confronted by Senator J. William Fulbright during a White House briefing at which each legislator present was allowed one question. Fulbright's was: "Just who is our enemy there?" Retorted the Vice President: "You don't have to ask the G.I. whose leg has been cut off who the enemy...