Word: congressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Remember," Richard Nixon admonished Republican congressional leaders last week, "we've got a Democratic Congress and we want to get along with them." His warning underscored what has become a dominant element in Nixon's plans for the immediate future. After a cautious campaign and a transition period relatively free of friction, Nixon apparently intends to ease through his first months of incumbency in much the same manner...
...hour meeting in Washington with the Republican leaders of Congress, the President-elect made it clear that he had no intention of hurriedly sending an ambitious legislative program up to Capitol Hill. "We've got to mark time for a while," said one participant...
Shift of Emphasis. An apt example is the law-and-order field. There, the President-elect may work with the Omnibus Crime Control Act, passed by the 90th Congress, to expand federal aid to local law enforcement authorities. Under the Act, Nixon's Attorney General may sanction the use of wiretapping in certain cases-authority that the Johnson Administration declined to use. Nixon may also double the size of the Justice Department's organized crime section, raise it to the status of a separate division within the agency and elevate its chief to the rank of Assistant Attorney...
...Klondike sourdough, Bartlett may well have been the prototype of Edna Ferber's central character in Ice Palace. He grew up in gold-crazed Fairbanks, went to Washington in 1932 to serve as secretary to the territorial Delegate. In 1944 he was elected a Delegate to Congress, where for 14 years he led the fight for Alaskan statehood-after which a grateful electorate awarded him a senatorial seat by an overwhelming majority...
...million OAO program, which in the next three years is scheduled to launch three more observatories. Since April 1966, when a $69 million OAO went dead in orbit be fore it could return any useful information, NASA scientists have been aware that another failure might well spur Congress into cutting off the program's remaining funds...