Word: congressmen
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...subservience." In predominantly Protestant Washington State, the state senate resolved that Tito's visit would be "a rebuff to the brave Hungarian and Polish people who are resisting Communist pressures." The American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars took similar stands. Impressed by their mail. Congressmen in a petition urged President Eisenhower to keep Tito out. Wisconsin's Representative Alvin E. O'Konski even said he would consider resigning his seat if "a murderer and dictator" was invited...
Democratic and Republican Congressmen alike joined in the chorus of praise for the President's dedication to "the building of a peace with justice in a world where moral law prevails." Ike, crowed Wisconsin's Senator Alexander Wiley, ranking Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, had "laid it right on the line, not only to the American people but to the world." The Senate's top Democrat, Texas' Lyndon Johnson, said the Eisenhower speech had "set forth goals and objectives with which every American will agree...
...implement his ideas with specific deeds that can assure lasting peace to what he called a "shaken earth." And- although it was not especially noticeable last week in the hearings on the Administration's Middle Eastern proposals-there was also a heavy burden of responsibility on the Congressmen who had been so effusive in their praise. For as Lyndon Johnson carefully noted: "Our task is to find means that will achieve [the President's] ends...
Bribes & Phone Calls. With all this emphasis on brains and balance, the competition to get into college sometimes becomes a desperate affair. Dean Robert Pitt of the University of Pennsylvania says that in one year he received phone calls or letters from ten governors, as many Congressmen, and a host of board chairmen, all interested in pushing candidates. He has also been offered bribes ("O.K., how much do you want?" demanded one father as he whipped out his checkbook), has seen another father offer the university $3,000 if only it would take his son in. In Washington...
...Dubious congressmen are cordially invited to visit my classes for a demonstration of what I am talking about...