Word: congressmen
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David M. Kotz '65, president of the Harvard chapter of SDS, said last night that the details about where the demonstrators will march and whether they will contact congressmen have not yet been worked out. He added, however, that Senator Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) and Ernest Gruenning (D-Alaska), both critics of U.S. policy in Vietnam have been invited to speak...
...conservatism of the self-made Texas businessman and the liberalism of the poverty-haunted New Deal politician pulse like an alternating current. He is overbearing to his aides, then suddenly overwhelmingly considerate; cynical about men's motives, yet sentimental enough to weep when a group of Texas Congressmen presented him with a laudatory plaque; incredibly thin-skinned, yet able to brush off some criticism with the comment, "My daddy told me that if you don't want to get shot at, stay oft the firing line." He prides himself on being a shrewd judge...
...Congress the respect and consideration it has not received since Jefferson-and the Congress has fully responded in terms of the great respect it holds for the presidency. We shall have no paralyzing crises such as we experienced in the court fight of 1937 or the purge of uncooperative Congressmen in 1938." Or, he might have added, in Kennedy's last year...
Aware that businessmen almost reflexively equate Democrats with fiscal irresponsibility, Johnson set out to change that image. He succeeded by keeping his first budget under $100 billion and by halving the deficit. At the same time, he convinced key Congressmen-notably Senator Harry Byrd and Representative Millsthat he really aimed to keep a tight rein on federal spending. The result: the two men finally moved the $11.5 billion tax cut out of their committees, and Congress quickly passed it. Though Johnson's techniques of persuasion and manipulation have inevitably changed somewhat in the transition from legislative to executive branch...
True to Form. In such a close fight, the outcome could hinge on the action of any cohesive block of Congressmen. Well aware of that, Manhattan's John Lindsay called a meeting of a group of Republican House liberal moderates who consider both Halleck and Ford too conservative, but presumably could swing a deal to support either in exchange for a bigger voice in party councils. Only ten members showed up, however-and, true to form, they could not agree on what to do about the Ford-Halleck contest. That left the matter just where it had been...