Word: congress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before a joint session of the 86th Congress went the President of the U.S. to make his annual report on the State of the Union. His message was closely reasoned, bluntly presented with occasional flashes of eloquence, and positive in its nature. Dwight Eisenhower urged and set forth a program for fiscal responsibility, not of the sort that stifles growth but of the kind that can stand as a springboard for national progress...
...President's problem with Congress was partly of his own making, partly the result of inescapable circumstance. He is the nation's first President to be barred by the Constitution (23rd Amendment) from running again. Having earnestly tried to stand above party, he made one of his rare ventures into partisan politics last fall-and the Republicans lost 13 seats in the Senate, 47 in the House. The specter of that defeat peered over his shoulder last week as he spoke to Congressmen who had already weighed the political factors and decided to go their own ways, without...
...week was warm and enthusiastic-as if designed to show that the glittering assemblage of Congressmen, Cabinet members, Supreme Court justices, foreign diplomats and distinguished visitors, almost to a man, liked Ike. Just as unmistakable was the fact that never before in his presidency had Dwight Eisenhower confronted a Congress-almost two-thirds Democratic-so openly skeptical of his programs and philosophy, so thoroughly pervaded on the eve of the traditional message by the spirit of show...
...applause, "Thank you! Thank you!" He sounded well-his voice was firm, alert, vital-as he prefaced his speech by saying Happy Birthday to the presiding officers. Vice President Richard Nixon, 46 that day; Speaker Sam Rayburn, 77 that week. Then President Eisenhower set about "showing" the 86th Congress by refusing-even with the Communist planet orbiting the sun and the U.S.S.R.'s Anastas Mikoyan orbiting through the U.S.-to change the measured pace of his own concept of living with cold war. The keynote of the State of the Union, 1959: "The material foundation of our national safety...
Loyalty oaths are now required of recipients of aid under both the National Defense Education Act and the National Science Foundation Act, which was passed at the height of the McCarthy scare when educators were too timid to protest such obnoxious provisions. The 86th Congress, which is scheduled to consider new educational aid legislation anyway, would do well to remove loyalty restrictions from both bills. Rather than aids to education, loyalty oaths are purposeless and dangerous hindrances to the spirit of the legislation containing them...