Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Commission official confirmed yesterday that the change in procedure was "partly" in response to recent charges by Republican Congressmen that summer jobs are being dispensed as political favors. He said, however, that the Commission has considered giving such an examination for some time...
Then, smilingly, the President alluded to his brother, Massachusetts' Senator Teddy Kennedy, in making the point that McNamara is above political influence. Said the President: "I know from personal experience that Senators and Congressmen who recently visited Secretary McNamara, asking to prevent plans from being turned down, who happen to be members of my own party, and indeed even more closely related, have been rejected by the Secretary of Defense...
...Criticism is far from unjustified; Powell as usual, has cut no more corners than other Congressmen, but he has cut them far wider than most. The Corps was one of 16 groups to receive grants from the President's Committee on Youth Crime to found anti-delinquency projects last year. Fifteen of these have not been heard from since...
...only a fraction of the overall defense budget) for military hardware for 1964 was voted upon twice in the House. First, the additional funds for the RS-7O were approved, 226-179. Then an across-the-board cut of $800 million was rejected, 258-149. In the overlap, 69 Congressmen availed themselves of the opportunity to vote both for increased defense and decreased spending...
...that Oxnam "served God on Sunday and the Communist front for the balance of the week." Oxnam requested and got a well-publicized hearing from House Un-American Activities Committee, belligerently went through a ten-hour session countering the subcommittee's sloppily documented charges. At the end, the Congressmen wearily agreed that Oxnam had no tinge...