Word: congressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congress, led by House Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills, is likely to demand far more extensive tax reforms than those that the Administration is proposing. Whatever the outcome, both parties will doubtless take credit for redressing longstanding inequities. A President dealing with a Congress controlled by the opposition can hardly hope for much more. Last week, however, the Administration won a minor but perhaps trend-setting victory when enough Democrats deserted their party leadership to vote with the Republicans on an education assistance measure...
...congressional fights that either promise little chance of victory or encourage Democratic retaliation on other issues. Only his anti-ballistic missile decision has stimulated deep controversy, and on that subject he faced trouble no matter which direction he took. Rather than expend energies and political capital on brawls with Congress, Nixon is hoarding his resources. It does not make for a dynamic posture. It leaves him open to charges such as Hubert Humphrey's last week, that the President has failed "to grasp the urgency of present circumstances." But it does permit the Administration to focus on the problems...
...Finch argues that the universities should be given the widest possible latitude. Repressive federal action, he says, would endanger academic freedom and harm the vast majority of students who have never even thought of joining the S.D.S. He has campaigned energetically against half a dozen repressive bills pending in Congress. "In all truth," he told a congressional committee, "many academic institutions have brought much of it on themselves. They have not always responded to the clear need of any viable institution for constant self-examination and self-renewal. In attempting to serve many masters?Government and industry among them?they...
Last week he finally announced his man: Illinois Congressman Donald Rumsfeld. Presiding over OEO's burnt-out shell seemed to be an extremely un promising job for an ambitious, attractive young Republican like "Rummy" Rumsfeld. He would be giving up one of the safest seats in Congress: his constituents had sent him to Congress four straight times. But, argued the White House, running OEO will be only a portion of his responsibility. Rumsfeld will also have full Cabinet status and be a presidential assistant (salary: $42,500, equal to congressional pay). Finally, he will sit on Pat Moynihan...
...appears at first to be an unlikely choice to lead the nation's fight on poverty. He opposed much of the Johnson antipoverty legislation, including the measure setting up OEO. He says that his stand reflected a difference over methods, not goals. But since he came to Congress in 1963 as a crew-cut conservative, his sympathies for the poor, as well as his hair, have grown...