Word: civic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rammed across his point. He scolded his Cabinet members (Defense Secretary Neil McElroy had airily announced that military spending would have to go up by about $2 billion; he soon got the word from the boss), wrote personal letters to political, business and civic leaders around the nation, urged his cause in press conferences and on radio and television, worked closely with Republican congressional leaders, and used his veto and the threat of his veto against lolly-gagging money bills. At year's end a balanced budget was in jeopardy, only because of the steel strike. Eisenhower had performed...