Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unlikely that altered representation will produce votes for the kind of measures most Congressmen from cities favor: the Administration's mass transit bill, an Urban Affairs Department, civil rights legislation, and welfare programs. Unlikely, that is unless the state legislature in question favors such programs. Malapportionment in most state legislatures today favors rural areas, and the Supreme Court has not yet ruled on the many cases challenging the situation...
...Down? A few wives yearn for the boiled shirts and ball gowns, but the Congressmen are all for Lyndon's way. "It wasn't like those mob scenes we've had before," said one. Starting in January, the President took on the entire Senate in three dinner dances, is now working his way through the House. Last week he reached the half way point by holding the third of six scheduled buffet-receptions for some 70 Representatives and their wives...
...affairs get under way at 6 p.m., with many of the Congressmen heading straight for the White House from the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, still in their business suits. As waiters whisk through the Red and Green rooms with trays of drinks, the President claps his hands for attention. It is time, he says, to mix a little work with a little play. The members of the House should follow him, the ladies, Mrs. Johnson...
Cabinet or Chandelier. Downstairs, Lyndon ushers his guests into the State Dining Room, seats them on straight-backed chairs for briefings, usually by Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and one or two other Cabinet members. Some Congressmen feel that this part of the evening is a treatment, not a treat. "It mostly sounded to me like a political tub thumping," groused Kansas Republican William Avery. Still, most of them can hardly help feeling flattered when the President trots out top Cabinet officers for their edification...
Ellen Rometsch, a party girl of peculiar tastes, was sent back home to West Germany last summer after the FBI began investigating her sex habits. "Elly" is remembered as a sometime hostess at the Quorum Club, a Washington watering spot for lobbyists and Congressmen that Baker helped organize. Though Baker, as well as other men about Washington, probably breathed a sigh of relief when Elly left, he apparently had no part in getting her deported. She was subsequently divorced by her West German army sergeant husband on grounds of "conduct contrary to matrimonial rules...