Word: congressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Haynsworth defeat will not end Nixon's efforts to remake the Supreme Court along less activist lines. The President said that he would name a new nominee when Congress reconvenes in January, and promised another strict constructionist like Haynsworth. "The Supreme Court needs men of his legal philosophy to restore the proper balance," said Nixon. Scott, trying to heal the sectional split over Haynsworth, said he hoped that Nixon's next nominee would also be a Southerner. He would probably have a better chance; White House aides believe far fewer Republicans would be willing to buck the President...
...also feels that the Administration will need his vote in the future. "The President can do a lot of things for you and, I assume, some things to you. But on the other hand, the ability of a President and a member of Congress to get along is not limited to a single vote, no matter how cruel that vote may seem at the moment...
...heyday in Wall Street and Hollywood, Kennedy was an aggressive, though never reckless in-and-out operator. By about 1949, however, he had decided against further risk-taking. Jack was looking beyond his safe seat in Congress, and so was his father. Joe Kennedy told his advisers to keep his money away from "troubled places"-he had moved out of the politically troublesome liquor business in 1946-and he turned down deals that he formerly would have snapped...
...their already towering levels. High-grade utility bonds were offered in Wall Street at a record 8.9% yield. William F. Butler, vice-president of the Chase Manhattan Bank, says that banks are refraining from raising their 81% prime rate on business loans only because they fear "the wrath of Congress." The prime rate is an increasingly unreliable guide to borrowing costs anyway. Growing numbers of borrowers pay as much as 10.6% interest on loans officially made at the prime rate, because banks are strictly enforcing a rule that the borrower must leave 20% of the face amount of his loan...
...Modest in scope, but significant in impact," said Richard Nixon of the foreign-trade proposals that he sent to Congress last week-and so they were. While his message reaffirmed the nation's 35-year-old commitment to freer trade, the President sought only minor new authority to cut tariffs. In effect, he promised that any Nixon Round of trade negotiations would consist only of hard-headed international horse trading...