Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first drama of the new session of Congress took place last week, five hours after the President had delivered his State of the Union message, and after most Senators and Congressmen had pronounced their appraisals to newsmen and gone home to dinner. Just after dark, Ohio's white-haired Republican Senator John W. Bricker walked into the White House and made his way to Ike's second-floor study to meet with the President and an assortment of Administration brass, including Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, Attorney General Herbert Brownell and Senate Majority Leader Bill Knowland...
...Congress and the bureaucracy. If it works-and it seems to be working-the new function of the Vice President may help to solve a crisis of modern government: the conflict between the unity of national policy represented by the President and the divisiveness and multiplicity represented by Congressmen, specialized administrators arid their attendant pressure groups...
This robust independence (or egocentric anarchy) is tempered by the influence of the presidency acting on the people-not through a party machine, but more directly through the President's access to press, radio and TV. The voters reached by the President exercise an influence on Congressmen. In this way, a President can exert almost as much (or as little) leverage on opposition Congressmen as on members of his own party. As election day approaches, a popular President's influence on Congressmen can be expected to increase considerably...
...stick-except as the President, by arousing public interest in his program, can provide them with carrots and sticks. Significantly, President Eisenhower began the political year 1954 by going to the people with a preview of his program (see above). If he succeeds in arousing and maintaining public interest, Congressmen, aware of next fall's elections, will be responsive to leadership...
Neither party in Congress has crystallized around a program. Ike has a program (TIME, Dec. 28). Whether Congress adopts it or picks it to pieces depends not on the party arithmetic in Congress but on how much popular pressure Ike can generate and apply to Congressmen...