Word: aids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...C.I.O. convention at Bal Harbour, Fla., Johnson mixed folksiness, fire and factitiousness to concoct a politically potent brew. Over and over again, he poured scorn on "the complainers, the critics, the doubters" and those ubiquitous "nay sayers." Repeatedly he called the roll of his Administration's breakthroughs: Medicare, aid to primary and secondary education, the poverty program and all the rest. Predictably ignoring the fact that he himself slowed down innovation and sought to curb spending increases in the past year, he called for more, more, more...
...spending was a better way to fight inflation than raising taxes, as Johnson proposes, but the fact is that Congress failed either to raise taxes or make an appreciable dent in spending. The Republicans tried, to be sure, but the only specific saving Dirksen would gloat over was foreign aid, the program with no broad lobby in this country. And when Ford attacked the "pretty bad record" of the 89th, he was forgetting the millions of voters benefiting from that Congress's historically significant output. The present Congress, while producing some good legislation, was far from a standout performer...
...Trade expansion with Communist countries got nowhere, as Congress showed an upsurge of protectionist sentiment and even more hostility than usual to foreign aid. The aid bill was reduced $1 billion below the Administration request to $2.29 billion, its lowest level ever; renewal of the Export-Import Bank's charter and funding beyond June 30 was delayed; and there were a number of efforts to protect industries claiming injury by foreign competition...
...truck drivers managed to escape their sinking vehicles, unable to aid their driving partners asleep in the back. Bill Needham, 27, of Kernersville, N.C., was pushing a tractor-trailer rig to Milwaukee when he hit the water...
...single foreign country offered to recognize the new regime, and in a calculated diplomatic snub, the ambassadors of Britain, France, Italy, West Germany and the U.S. even refused to heed a summons from Papadopoulos to drop by for a briefing. A lack of recognition would mean a cutoff in aid programs, a disruption of trade, and a general discomfiture for the sensitive colonels, who badly want to be accepted by the Western nations...