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Horses and Dukes. Unseasonably balmy weather is predicted for Inauguration Day itself, in happy contrast to the eight inches of snow that buried Washington just before the Kennedy Inauguration eight years ago. After Nixon takes the oath from Chief Justice Earl Warren at noon on the Capitol steps and delivers his inaugural address, the two-hour parade-shortest in memory, timed to end while there is still enough light for color-television cameras-will get under way up Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House. Nixon, Vice President Agnew and their families will watch from a heated presidential box enclosed...
CONGRESS is a creature of custom whose membership, unlike that of the executive branch, alters only gradually over the decades. Abrupt reaction is as alien to Capitol Hill as to a three-toed sloth. Yet the divisions and defeats of the Democrats in 1968 were bound to make a heavy mark on the 91st Congress, which assembled last week as a Republican prepared to take over the White House. The Democratic Party, which has ruled Capitol Hill for most of the past 40 years, seemed not only to have lost its old suzerainty over labor, the South and the minority...
...showed that a majority of the Senate Democrats may now very well be antiwar. As a member of the Democratic hierarchy, he will have considerable influence on the legislation that Richard Nixon offers to Congress, and on the countervailing programs that the Democrats can now only propose from Capitol Hill. He also marked out a unique redoubt from which to pursue any presidential ambitions that he may entertain in 1972 or 1976-or thereafter...
...post offers unique advantages to Kennedy during the next few years. With the Republicans in control of the White House and all the big-state governorships except Texas, Congress becomes the Democrats' principal sounding board and fortress. In opposition to the White House but in firm control of Capitol Hill, the congressional Democrats thus have wider responsibility and opportunity to assert themselves than they have had with a Democratic President insistent on passing his own legislative program...
...somewhat reluctantly. This would allow for funding urban programs at roughly their current levels-again dissatisfying to both liberals and conservatives. It would, however, permit an increase in the military budget of $4.9 billion (to $78.5 billion), which is less than the service chiefs and their partisans on Capitol Hill want. House Armed Services Chairman Mendel Rivers insists that defense spending will have to go up by still another few billion. On the first day of the new Congress, he introduced a $3.8 billion bill that in effect would begin construction of a new Navy. The amount is nearly triple...