Word: congressmen
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...addition to beefing up Memo's content and publishing it regularly each fortnight. Pastor Buschmeyer plans to see as much as possible of Congressmen and officials to answer questions and air views. Says he: "Nine-tenths of all Americans want to be good citizens. But eight-tenths don't see any connection between religious and moral convictions and economic and political convictions...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8--Secretary of State Dulles told congressmen emphatically today there is no point now in holding new summit talks with the Russians...
...conference with legislative leaders last fortnight the President sat fuming while Congressmen asked sharp questions-and got limp answers from Pentagon officials-about interservice rivalries, overlapping missile programs and the whole organizational foul-up that makes it almost impossible to trace responsibility for any kind of failure in U.S. defense. No sooner had the congressional leaders left the White House than President Eisenhower called Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, into his office. His orders: find the right answers to the Pentagon's problems and put them into effect. Said the President: "You have a free hand...
Nixon's dose of realism was hard for the N.A.M. to take. Although a panel of four Congressmen had earlier warned that a tax cut was unlikely, most of the preceding speeches had been full of the sort of wishful thinking that the N.A.M.'s members apparently never tire of. Speakers argued for tax reductions and less Government spending, against interstate commerce regulations and the Tennessee Valley Authority...
...joint letter to President Eisenhower last week, six Democratic Congressmen urged him to consider a summit meeting with Russia. The horrors of nuclear warfare, they wrote, make the attempt worthwhile. The six: Minnesota's Eugene J. McCarthy, Montana's Lee Metcalf, Wisconsin's Henry S. Reuss, Pennsylvania's George M. Rhodes, California's James Roosevelt, New Jersey's Frank Thompson...