Word: congressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There were disappointments. The Russians again snubbed his bid for friendlier relations. Congress threatened to cut his modest $2.9 billion foreign aid program by one-third. Though Administration officials noted "some movement" in the Paris peace talks, it still seemed too slight to justify his March 31 renunciation of a second term...
...pretty thin fare for a crusade that set for itself no less a task than the conquest of poverty. No doubt the goals were too ambitious. Between the exaggerated aims set forth in overblown speeches by the campaign's leaders and a hardening attitude on the part of Congress, there was no middle ground, and disappointment was the inevitable result...
...also giving warning. We will not remain poor. We will not remain depressed, repressed or oppressed." Added Whitney Young Jr., executive director of the National Urban League: "This may be the last march which is non violent and which brings blacks and whites together. The nation and the Congress must listen to us now before it is too late-before the prophets of violence replace the prophets of peace and justice...
...Government renewed its permit for Resurrection City, the poor people's waterlogged campsite by the Lincoln Memorial. "I received my permit a long time ago," said Abernathy, "from God Almighty," and he vowed that the poor would stay in Washington "until justice rolls out of the halls of Congress and righteousness falls from the Administration...
...wing French directors, including Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Resnais and Claude Lelouch, Viet Nam piously begins by disclaiming any prejudice. It is, says the narrator, "an indictment of American foreign policy, not Americans." But the Americans on camera are treated with savage contempt. General Westmoreland's address to Congress is shown on color TV while someone fiddles with the color and intensity. Hubert Humphrey utters an optimistic appraisal of Europe as "Humphrey, Go Home!" signs parade past the camera...