Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congressmen are mad at Yugoslavia's Tito for snarling at U.S. nuclear testing during the Belgrade Conference while continuing to ask for U.S. aid. They are angry at India's Nehru for gobbling up Goa and for seeking Russian arms that his country could not afford without U.S. aid. They are mad at Brazil for expropriating a U.S. telephone subsidiary, and at Ghana's Nkrumah for his Marxist chatter...
...stop the House from whacking out the one thing that Kennedy wanted most: freedom to try to pry some nations loose from Moscow with aid. The President summoned congressional leaders of both parties to the White House. Aid Administrator Fowler Hamilton personally pleaded with some 100 Congressmen, and Ambassador George Kennan flew home from his post in Belgrade to make a pitch to the House. The Administration even got key help from Pennsylvania's champion anti-Communist Francis Walter, who argued: "For years one of the major deterrents to World War III has been the resistance of enslaved people...
...from his cocoon. He should make himself available to news men, "not just the grand interview at the time of the annual meeting, but continuously." When he has strong feelings on public affairs, he should bypass company lobbyists or trade organizations and make his personal views known directly to Congressmen or Cabinet officers. He should speak frequently at colleges and universities, and subject himself to round tables where "questions will be searching but honest-the sort his staff will never...
Since taking command of the Pentagon last year. Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara has vigorously goaded the sacred cows of the armed forces, to bellows of dismay from affronted admirals, generals and Congressmen. Last week it was the state Governors' turn to yowl as McNamara took steps to put a halter on the most sacred cow of all: the Army National Guard. At their conference in Hershey, Pa., the Governors met with McNamara to protest his plan to reform and cut back the Guard, a traditional source of political power, prestige and pay in their home states...
McNamara's plan for the Guard was far from a revolutionary reform, but its political pitfalls proved to be many and deep. First off, he made the mistake, rare for him, of confusing his whole case with a bungled Pentagon presentation on the Hill that enraged Congressmen. Both the House and Senate now seem likely to insist that the Guard's strength be kept at 400,000 men-a figure that the Guard now falls below. But this manpower requirement would not prevent McNamara from realigning units as he saw fit, and he would be able to build...