Word: congressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...majority of Americans, who know that Lyndon Johnson speaks the truth when he tells them they never had it so good, often find the tumult incomprehensible. Congress senses the mood and refuses to be rushed; it figures that most elections are still decided, as one political analyst put it, by "the un-poor, the un-black and the un-young...
Humphrey has gone to great lengths to explain exactly what he means by the happiness slogan-slightly dressed up as "the spirit of public happiness"-and maintained that the phrase had been written by a bona fide founding father, no less. Though the Library of Congress has not been able to trace the quote, a Humphrey aide said that he thought John Adams had put the words in a letter to Thomas Jefferson. His source: Gene McCarthy, who once used the phrase in his own speeches...
...headquarters of the Poor People's Campaign-the last project launched by the late Martin Luther King Jr-the shantytown is designed to prod Congress into taking action on behalf of the nearly 30 million poor Americans. To ensure that Congress gets the message, the poor will stage a series of demonstrations climaxed by a Memorial Day march that is expected to draw more than 150,000 participants. What worries official Washington-as well as the tourists who are staying away in droves-is that the "demos" may get out of hand, turning Resurrection City into Insurrection City...
...saith the Lord about antipoverty programs, Abernathy has been understandably vague. He vows that the poor will "plague the pharaohs of this nation with plague after plague until they agree to give us meaningful jobs and a guaranteed annual income." All the same, he is well aware that with Congress considering a $6 billion budget cut, such ambitious demands are not likely to be met. He and his lieutenants would probably be happy to settle for far more limited steps-notably, a reversal by Congress of the 1967 freeze on the Aid for Dependent Children program, enactment of a provision...
There are miles of films of L.B.J. in action given by television networks and more than 500,000 pictures of the President snapped by ubiquitous White House Photographer Yoichi Okamoto and two assistants. Mrs. Johnson has preserved home movies of him campaigning for Congress in 1937, and there is treasured footage shot by her husband as a World War II Navy lieutenant commander aboard the Flying Fortress Swoose when it crash-landed in Australia in 1942. This plethora of memorabilia and trivia, together with hundreds of official gifts from visiting dignitaries, will be housed in a special Johnson library...