Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...billion in yearly revenue to ensure that domestic programs will not be cannibalized to feed the war. But more revenue will not be enough to pacify economy-minded Republicans; as Everett Dirksen said after the Johnson speech, the GOP congressmen will still be looking for ways to reduce the budget...
...other domestic questions, the President confined his legislative proposals to ones which would not cut deeply into the national budget. He suggested a "safe streets and crime control act" including strict firearms regulation, a new open housing law, and an end to "electronic bugging...
Each aircraft brought in its coterie of Washington officials for long intensive talks with Lyndon Johnson - about the budget, the State of the Union message, the war, the Great Society. The President's appointment schedule was so full that he sometimes had difficulty keeping up with his high-priority desk work...
Drafts & Decisions. The result was, so far as the nation knew, that all manner of problems and questions remained in a state of unsettled limbo. The first galleys of the President's budget message for fiscal 1968 began arriving last week in Budget Director Charles Schultze's office, but, said a White House aide, "every fourth word is a blank." The budget is expected to be roughly $130 billion, with $70 billion to $75 billion of that for defense. Just where the money will go depends on such pending decisions as whether a Nike-X anti-missile missile...
...climate of uncertainty, just about every department in Washington expects to undergo a budget hold-down...