Word: congressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedys promised us the moon in 1960, and that particular moon consisted of the Bay of Pigs, acceleration of the war in Viet Nam, the Berlin Wall, the disastrous Vienna conference and the failure to get one New Frontier legislative program through Congress. What is Bobby going to do for an encore...
...came too late to permit his removal from the ballot) 12%, and Humphrey 4%, as a write-in candidate. It was the first defeat suffered by any of the three Kennedy brothers in the 27 primary and general-election campaigns they have waged since John F. first ran for Congress...
...wanted to be President. Both began by dutifully presenting their credentials. 'Tve had the experience," said Bobby, evoking his service as Attorney General and member of the National Security Council. McCarthy, who wound up with a more substantial Who's Who entry, cited his 20 years in Congress and his service on committees that are concerned with the whole gamut of U.S. problems, from racial relations to foreign relations...
...gallstone trouble, she has stumped valiantly through all the primary states, frequently on heavy schedules of her own. Even so, she candidly admits that she did not want Gene to run for President. "But I have an awfully bad record," she adds. "When he decided to run for Congress, I thought it was nice being a professor's wife. And when he talked of running for the Senate, I thought it was nice to represent a good safe district. When he decided to run for President, I said, 'Does it have...
...attempt to bring the poor up to or near its income level as a threat to its own position. The view is shortsighted, of course. Being poor in America really isn't much fun. But as long as a large group of voters is jealous of its position, Congress must be careful not to give the poor too much...