Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What is baffling about opposition to the Corps is that none of the usual bogeys can possibly scare Congressmen. It does not cost much: only a meager five million dollars for the first two years. Neither a large bureaucracy nor duplication are imminent: a small administrative board will arrange training, and projects will be chosen only if no other service is available. And there is to be no Federal encroachment on the local domain: Corpsmen will work only when requested by local groups; they will not be sent anywhere...
...scene was the White House flower garden, crowded with a giggle of presidential secretaries, a gaggle of Congressmen, Bob Hope as the guest of honor, and John Kennedy as his admiring straight man. What was Hope doing there? He had come, along with his wife, to receive from President Kennedy a congressional gold medal for having entertained U.S. troops all over the world since 1941. Hope was happy-although there was "one sobering thought. I received this for going outside the country. I think they are trying to tell me something...
...role as political humorist, Art Buchwald takes pains to stay aloof from official Washington. "I feel a pundit like me shouldn't see people," says Buchwald, who has yet to meet the President-or want to. "It only confuses me. When you talk to Senators and Congressmen, you get the impression they are working, and you know it isn't true. And people have a tendency to win you over with flattery. I'm a pushover. I figure a guy who likes my column...
Plenty of guys are not all bad. Three U.S. Congressmen have read samples of his work into the Congressional Record; President Kennedy, who threw the Herald Tribune out of the White House,* went right on reading Buchwald in the Washington Post. In his one year in Washington, Buchwald has added 75 newspapers to his syndication and doubled his income, to $80,000 a year. By a considerable margin, that makes Art Buchwald the most successful humorous columnist...
...year term, is turning out to be more outspoken-and articulate-than most. At the National Press Club in Washington last month, Neilan said that the U.S. has its own scandal to match Britain's Christine Keeler case: a "se duction by subsidy" in which more and more Congressmen are turning into bagmen for constituents, bringing home pork barrel programs and federal handouts in return for votes...