Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is a danger in the President's making an important issue of a problem on which he is clearly unable to act immediately, it is that suggestions of scandal allow too many people to play the heroic investigator. Nothing delights congressmen seeking reelection more than the prospect of uncovering corruption in the executive branch. The stockpile question is a tricky one, and efforts to fix the blame for it on specific administrators are unlikely to answer it effectively...
According to revised schedules the Harvard buses should reach the nation's capital by 10 a.m. today. The students will visit Capitol Hill in the morning to bring the message of the policy statement home to congressmen and senators. A small demonstration at the White House is on the agenda for this afternoon but, again, heavy snows could change the plans...
Gottlieb said Friday's visits to Congressmen, embassies, and administration officials would only be a "first step toward sustained political participation," and urged the students to become active in the party of their choice...
After Knowledge, What? Presumably, a citizenry well informed about the evils, strengths and tactics of Communism would be equipped to make itself felt in the voting booth, in letters to Congressmen, and other normal methods of political expression, on the specific issues of cold war policy-defense spending, foreign trade policy, foreign aid, atomic testing, fallout shelters, the role...
...Pact. This is a meeting of the organization of free and independent American states." There were also mutterings that the four U.S. Senators and Representatives who buttonholed delegates, warning that the election-year mood of Congress was one of "No cooperation, no aid," had damaged U.S.Latin American relations. The Congressmen had pressed the point hard. But few Latin Americans seriously believed that the U.S. was about to, or could, return to the arrogant days of dollar diplomacy-though Congressional opinions are a fact of U.S. political life that Latin Americans might as well understand...