Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...without representation was an issue in our American Revolution. It is rapidly becoming one with regard to poor city schools and roads, farm subsidies and the poor quality of state governments. Even congressional seniority that ties up so much legislation is ultimately a result of poor apportionment. Those 218 Congressmen have forgotten about separation of powers and federal supremacy. DANIEL NEUBOURG Staten Island...
...nominated, Lyndon seemed to be bursting with exhilaration. He rose at 5:30 a.m., signed an important amendment to the Atomic Energy Act allowing private firms to buy nuclear fuels rather than lease them from the Government, conferred during the day by phone or in person with some 70 Congressmen, a couple of dozen Governors, countless labor leaders and businessmen over the vice-presidential selection...
...vote, the House rejected legislation that would allow the U.S. to join in the new quota agreement. Though Administration leaders count on eventual approval, the action jolted Brazilians into asking President Humberto Castello Branco to convene an emergency meeting of all world coffee producers. The new quotas, argued Brazilian congressmen, are meaningless without U.S. participation...
...strongest sign of the Administration's determination to have a program at any price was its willingness to scuttle Adam Yarmolinsky, who has been on loan to the Poverty Corps from his Pentagon job as special assistant to Defense Secretary McNamara. Yarmolinsky is disliked by many Southern Congressmen because 1) he is a liberal, and 2) he helped set up a Kennedy-ordered commission to investigate racial discrimination in the armed forces, later took part in implementing its anti-discrimination proposals. Those same Southerners did not want Yarmolinsky messing around with the Poverty Corps. The coup...
...wake of the Wallace withdrawal, Alabama Republicans claimed, with some justification, that Goldwater would not only carry the state but would carry some Republican Congressmen along with him. In Mississippi, Tom Garrott, a longtime member of the state Demo cratic executive committee, began cranking up a Democrats-for-Goldwater movement. Throughout the South, Gallup and Harris polls agreed, a Wallace candidacy would have cost Goldwater 12% of the vote, Johnson...