Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Symington's partisan play infuriated Dwight Eisenhower, who just happened to be in Washington lunching with Republican Congressmen. He said his Administration had played no favorites in administering the stockpile program, a program which, he emphasized, "operated under laws that existed long before I got there." As for George Humphrey, Ike remained a fervent admirer. Said he: "If Secretary Humphrey ever did a dishonest thing in his life, I'm ready to mount the cross and you can put the nails and spear...
...Full of fire, Cattle Farmer Eisenhower earlier got mad when G.O.P. Congressmen told him the original Kennedy farm program included jail sentences for some farmers who failed to cooperate. Wrote Washington's Republican Representative Catherine May to her constituents about the meeting: "He declared that if any of these proposed regimented programs became law he would be darned if he just wouldn't rather go to jail than to submit." Ike will not be jailed-the provision was dropped from the bill...
...nine incumbent Democratic Congressmen were running at large for the eight seats left to Alabama after reapportionment resulting from the 1960 census. Last week the ninth man turned out to be none other than Mobile's Frank W. Boykin, 77, a flamboyant fixture in Washington for 28 years, a Mason, an Elk, a Moose, a Shriner, and a very Odd Fellow...
...confusion began about ten days ago, when the Office received a letter from a Senator, stating that he had never heard of the Harvard student who had asked him when to start work. King explained that there had been a number of "communication problems" between Congressmen, their assistants, and Fisher...
This sentiment was expressed by Christopher A. Sims '62, organizer of the Tocsin group that worked for Kowalski in Connecticut. He said that although Project Washington did confront Congressmen many Tocsin members feel the public demonstrations only identified the students with stereotyped "ban the bomb" campaigns and added nothing to the constructive criticism they had hoped to offer...