Word: congressmen
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Last week President John Kennedy prepared to submit to Congress a record budget of more than $92 billion for fiscal 1963-and vowed that it would be in balance. But many economists and Congressmen had deep doubts. There have been only six budget surpluses since F.D.R.'s first inaugural-and 24 deficit years. The budget for fiscal 1962, an Eisenhower-Kennedy hybrid, so far shows a deficit of $6.9 billion. In "balancing" the first pure-Kennedy budget, the Administration counts heavily on a higher tax take from rising corporate and personal income, and on congressional approval of a controversial...
...aides watching Capitol Hill saw storm signals, reported growing evidence that the President's legislative program might be in for heavy weather with the 87th Congress. President Kennedy decided to cut short his Florida stay and fly back to the capital for a series of conferences with key Congressmen. Chief among those the President wanted to see was Arkansas' Representative Wilbur Mills, whose Ways & Means Committee must pass on several of Kennedy's prime proposals (see following story). Then, at week's end, Kennedy flew to Columbus for a $100-a-plate Democratic rally in honor...
...which have generally been shrouded in darkness since Constantino Brumidi painted them nearly a century ago. Space inside the reconstructed east front of the Capitol has been used to give both House and Senate large, tastefully appointed new dining rooms, along with several dozen handsome hideaways for high-seniority Congressmen...
Kennedy's front-line political weapon is his own power of political persuasion. He courts Congressmen, inviting them to the White House for intimate social gatherings, calling them on the telephone to hash over old times on the Hill, remembering their birthdays with personal notes, carrying a tiny pad on which to jot down their political problems...
...Wisconsin's Republican Representative Vernon Thomson expresses the feelings of many Congressmen of both parties when he says: "Kennedy has a good personal image. In that sense he has overwhelming appeal. But he is more popular than any of the causes he espouses...