Word: congressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...president while Davy was in Congress...
...liberal President before him could not appease a raucous Negro population with heavy legislation for human rights, how is the comparatively conservative Nixon expected to do so? If a liberal Democratic President could not manage a liberal Democratic Congress, how is the conservative Republican expected to maneuver the same Congress? If the leader of a labor-oriented political party could not pacify the rebellious labor unions, how is the leader of a big-business-oriented party expected to reason with labor? If the President who was swept into office in 1964 on the largest majority vote ever could not unite...
...Christian Democrats, meanwhile, installed a minority government, temporizing until the Socialists could return to the fold. The Socialist pezzi grossi (big shots) expected to get support for the return at last month's party congress in Rome. "Here we are, five months after the election and in a worse position," declared Pietro Nenni, at 77 the party patriarch. But so badly divided was the party that in five days and nights, the only resolution it passed was for the removal of the word united from the party title, The United Socialist Party of Italy. Angered that the leadership...
Last week, however, it turned out that the Christian Democrats were not so reliable themselves. On the eve of the annual party congress, Giovanni Leone, the Neapolitan lawyer who had guided the minority government during the five months since the election, abruptly handed in his resignation. He figured that his fellow Christian Democrats were going to fire him, so he quit. In rapid succession, Mariano Rumor, the Christian Democratic party secretary, resigned his post, and Aldo Moro, who held the job of Premier during the five years of the center-left coalition, surprised everyone by suddenly withdrawing his supporters from...
...than zoning, productivity more than preserving jobs. Regulation of corporate giants may require government that is equally powerful. Moreover C. Wright Mills may be right. Intertwined leadership in government and business may make impossible any serious regulation of industrial expansion. Further, to finance regulatory programs will require an active Congress. There is little hope of changing the conservative legislative balance so long as Congressional races are decided more often on personality or local economics than on national issues. The most 'idealistic' campaign for President will help only a limited number of local candidates into office...