Word: congress
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...quite evident that the American electorate has chosen a typical "New Deal" Congress to represent us in Washington. It is also quite evident that the same American electorate desires more and more socialistic legislation...
Behind President Eisenhower's pledge of a "great peaceful crusade" lay hardcurrency news: the Administration's foreign-aid chief, Under Secretary of State C. Douglas Dillon, is planning to ask the new Congress that convenes in January to appropriate $1 billion for the Development Loan Fund instead of this year's $700 million. Atop that, Dillon will urge Congress to okay big increases in U.S. commitments to the World Bank and the currency-stabilizing International Monetary Fund. "The most important economic question facing the U.S.," says Dillon, onetime Wall Street investment banker who served four years...
Above the Battle. Worrisome to G.O.P. liberals is the fact that the President even now is not only preserving his official hands-off-Congress position but is saying and doing nothing to create a favorable climate for G.O.P. liberalism. The White House word after Aiken spoke out: 1) Dirksen is pretty sure to get the minority leadership, and the White House has no objection; 2) the President does not regard himself as a liberal, especially on domestic issues in a deficit year...
...surveyed the U.S. political landscape through a Democratic lens and liked what he saw. In the White House was a lame-duck Republican President, unbeatable in the past but barred by the Constitution from running again in 1960. Going up to Capitol Hill in January is a Congress dominated by Democrats as it has not been since 1937. There seemed a good chance that the strong Democratic winds of 1958 might blow at gale force in 1960, carrying The Man Who all the way to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue...
...trying to buy the convention"). Also, Hum-phreyites will make it clear to farmers that Kennedy has, on occasion, voted against high price supports (although he won the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s 100% approval for his votes on 15 key issues in the 85th Congress...