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...written reply to Minnesota's Humphrey, Libby assured him that the Atomic Energy Commission's mistake was "entirely inadvertent." After questioning AEC officials, Capitol Hill's Joint Atomic Energy Committee issued a bipartisan verdict of acquittal. Declared North Carolina's Committee Chairman Carl Durham: AEC made an "honest error...
Earlier in the week a bipartisan group of Senators led by Illinois Republican Everett McKinley Dirksen and Tennessee Democrat Estes Kefauver had proposed a new constitutional amendment that said substantially that. But the amendment was bound to run into a roadblock in the person of House Speaker Sam Rayburn, who is determined that Congress shall have the decisive voice as to whether the President is disabled...
Last week one of the most diverse citizens' groups ever assembled packed the Presidential Room of the Statler-Hilton in Washington to hear Harry Truman, at lunch, and Dwight Eisenhower, at dinner, kick off a bipartisan drive for a $3.9 billion foreign aid appropriation. In charge was the President's special foreign aid salesman, Eric Johnston. On hand were labor leaders and dowagers, bishops and Hollywood entertainers, the Democrats' Lyndon Johnson, Adlai Stevenson and Dean Acheson, the Republicans' Dick
...Even the President joined in the counterattack. "The economy of this country is a lot stronger than the spirit of those people that I see wailing about it," he told the National Food Conference in Washington. Amid the flap, Capitol Hill's Joint Economic Committee quietly reported a bipartisan conclusion: if further easing of credit and "acceleration" of federal spending fail to end the .recession, then "tax reduction will be in order"-but "such action is not now recommended...
Losses cannot be cut by self-policing alone. One reason is that virtually no laws apply to the control of welfare and pension funds. To fill the gap, Democratic Senator Paul H. Douglas introduced a bill to police the funds that has wide bipartisan support. The bill calls for registration with the Labor Department of every welfare and pension plan in the U.S., requires full disclosure of fund finances in some 250,000 annual reports, provides criminal penalties for failure to do so. It is solidly backed by the Administration. Says Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell: "These private plans...