Word: congressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congress passes Elementary and Secondary Education Act, first massive federal aid to schools...
...problem of overpopulation is recognized for the first time in a presidential message to Congress...
...Richard Nixon asks Congress for approval of the SST jetliner...
...military coup that deposed Leftist João Goulart in 1964, Costa e Silva was elected President with army backing in 1966 and embarked on a program of tight political and economic control. Economic austerity worked wonders, but one politically repressive move followed another until Costa e Silva dissolved Congress and instituted rule by decree. Last August he suffered a paralytic stroke and was replaced by a military junta, which two months ago named General Emílio Garrastazú Médici as President...
...that if the original Whitten amendment passed, the Administration would have little choice but to denounce it as such, or to institute a quick court test to underline the point. Either way, the Administration would have been forced into taking direct actions repugnant to the South, countermanding the Congress and endangering future HEW appropriations...