Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elections, no fewer than 303 of the House's 437 members received more votes than John Kennedy in their home districts. Such Congressmen could reasonably consider themselves to be better judges than the President of the desires of their constituencies. The House was more than willing to follow Kennedy's lead in matters of national defense-and it appropriated $46.6 billion toward building up the nation's military strength. But it was the hallmark of the 1961 House of Representatives that it went its own way-or at least that of the folks back home -on domestic...
...from $1 to $1.25 an hour; the measure was accepted only after laundry workers (who do not, after all, form much of a voting bloc in most constituencies) were excluded from coverage. The Administration's major triumph came on a measure well calculated to please the constituent-conscious Congressmen. It was a sprawling, $6 billion, pork-barrel housing bill, covering both low-and middle-income groups in both urban and rural areas...
Compressing a momentous year of wartime history into a few sentences, a new State Department pamphlet titled Background-Berlin, 1961 has drawn strong complaints from Republican Congressmen because it seemed to blame Dwight Eisenhower for allowing the Russians to capture Berlin. Last week the State Department announced that the questioned passage would be rewritten. The Department's backtracking was appropriate-for in fact the cold-war history of Berlin is one that keeps getting added to, but has seldom been added up right...
Women in Camp. The guests at the day-long outing were 38 freshmen Republican Congressmen. Gettysburg was hot, but their host was in cool good humor. Attempting to point out the wheatfields across which Pickett's divi sion made its ruinous charge, Ike discovered the view blocked by a parked bus. When he asked that the bus be moved, one Congressman quipped, "Is that an executive order, Mr. President?" Chortled Ike, when the bus driver was slow in moving: "And obeyed just about as rapidly." Climbing aboard one of the congressional buses, Ike handled a microphone like a veteran...
...military reasons. "The Confederacy needed recognition from European powers," he said. "Recognition could not come about by winning defensive battles." The explanation served as a timely backdrop to a discussion of more recent military-political battles. After lunch at the Gettysburg Hotel, Ike agreed to answer questions from the Congressmen. Immediately, he was asked whether it was true that Berlin's troubles were born when he, as Commander of World War II Allied forces, failed to move on that city. Said Ike, recalling the late war period in which Churchill pushed for Allied occupation of Berlin and Roosevelt...