Word: congressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...work has often appeared in TIME but never before as a cover. In the tracing above, the first figure from the left (1) is Defense Secretary Melvin Laird clutching his hard-won ABM, while a general (2) expresses the Pentagon's pleasure. The cigarette-puffing baker (3) is Congress, serving up half a loaf of surtax. Above and to the right stands a G.I. (4) in the process of dropping his equipment into the arms of South Viet Nam's President Thieu (5). Below, Rumania's President Ceausescu (6) listens apprehensively while Soviet Party Boss Brezhnev...
While Nixon's relations with Congress have sometimes been clumsy, he won his toughest congressional battle to date when the Senate narrowly went along with his request for funds to start deployment of the Safeguard antiballistic-missile system. Though he had originally planned to defer tax reform for a while, he was happy to claim some of the credit for the historic tax bill passed by the House last week...
Richard Nixon won an important, if narrow, victory. Unlike his Democratic predecessor, however, he had left Congress free to work its will. Nixon's manner in dealing with Congress is almost diffident, a throwback to the more passive presidency of the Eisenhower years, a direct contrast with the hot-breath methods of Lyndon Johnson. Nixon quietly lobbied dozens of Senators for Safeguard, but he never made it a party issue with Republicans. A month ago, Nixon met with five anti-ABM Republican Senators, but mentioned the issue only in passing. He understood their position, he said, and they were free...
...Some in Congress believe that Nixon is making a deliberate effort to dissociate himself from the wheeler-dealer image of L.B.J. If so, the President could not have made the point more dramatically than he did during the final hours of Senate debate last week. On the Senate floor, a page slipped up to Delaware's John Williams, one of the very few Senators who had not announced a position on Safeguard. "Senator," the page stage-whispered, "the President is on the telephone." The ABM opponents concluded that Nixon was applying last-minute pressure to win a wavering vote...
Court Challenges. With little publicity-and a minimum of public hearings-33 state legislatures have voted convention applications and submitted them to Congress. One more petition is all that is technically needed to call a convention. Before they recessed recently, both the Delaware and Wisconsin legislatures were considering resolutions...