Word: congress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...20th century America, said Nixon, is simply that of "the survival of our civilization." What is the immediate answer to that question? Clearly, the policy that "retreat before aggression can only make war inevitable"-a policy followed both by the Republican Eisenhower Administration and by the Democratic 86th Congress ("I specifically want to pay tribute to members of the Democratic Party in the Congress for putting statesmanship above partisanship...
...take to broaden the authority of the international court: relaxation of the Connally amendment of 1946. which reserves to the U.S. the right to decide whether to permit disputes to go before the international court. The State Department, said Nixon, is now preparing suitable recommendations to Congress...
...first rich weeks of the 86th Congress, unfolding the morning newspaper was nothing but pleasure for Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson. Texan Johnson's weighty advice to the Administration on budget and defense policies, and his considerable success in steering the Senate to spectacular compromise on the filibuster and the housing bill, were the talk of Washington. But by last week Lyndon Johnson had become accustomed to finding more headaches in headlines than he had known in years...
...Castro has indefinitely put off the restoration of democracy-elections, a Congress, civil justice-pending a deep-surgery social revolution that he has had in mind for half a dozen years. He spoke little of this kind of revolution during his anti-Batista fight, which was financed by rich and professional Cubans sick of dictatorship. But the revolution is now plainly aimed at soaking the rich-business and landlords-and at favoring peasants (who helped Castro's war) and labor (which sat on its hands). Actions...
...labor chiefs, with a promise to form another study group to get to the heart of the unemployment situation. But there is already a plethora of study groups working in the field, and it seems unlikely that the Texan's task-force, approval of which he hurried through Congress, will come up with startlingly new conclusions or solutions...