Word: congressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Finch, 43, one of Nixon's oldest friends and political associates, will be no ordinary Cabinet member. He will oversee Nix on's entire domestic program. Finch may also eventually head a new agency. Nixon has tentative plans to ask Congress to combine HEW with the Department of Housing and Urban Development, forming a new Department of Human Resources. The purpose of the merger would be to unite all urban, welfare, public-health and education programs under a single executive-one with total access to the President...
Lyndon Johnson had trouble enough with the 90th Congress, even though his own party controlled both houses. Richard Nixon, facing a Capitol Hill controlled by the opposition, will have to be a consummate politician if he is to get anything but misery from the 91st. Wisconsin's Melvin Laird, chairman of the House Republican Conference, concedes that the next President "will have to be the greatest salesman of the century" to get his programs across. While the real test of his powers of persuasion will not come for months, Nixon's moves so far have been calculated...
...budget as expenditures. Also, when Mills preached to Nixon on the virtues of an austere spending program and the vices of cooking the books, he found a receptive audience. Of course, one comfortable talk does not necessarily ensure protracted harmony between a Republican President and a Democratic Congress. Mills, for instance, still opposes Nixon's proposal to gear increases in social security benefits to rises in the cost of living. At least three other areas of dispute are already discernible...
...Congress is likely to pick
Trouble is, that appetite has led many U.S. businessmen to demand protection in turn. Justifiably or not, Congress this year has been deluged with bills to put import quotas or similar nontariff barriers on steel, textiles, footwear and dozens of other products. The temptation to erect trade barriers is seductive. For somehow, the U.S. must end or at least substantially reduce its persistent balance of payments deficit; otherwise the dollar may face the same pressures as the franc and the devalued pound...