Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mildest of measures. Left out altogether was the controversial aid for teachers' salaries. To sweeten an allotment of $325 million for school construction, congressional leaders passed the word that the funds could also be used to pay off debts for past construction-a ploy calculated to charm Congressmen from the South, which has had a wave of classroom construction...
...entire school-aid package was sugar-coated by two provisions dear to most Congressmen: extension of the student loan program of the National Defense Education Act; extension of federal aid to school districts that have large numbers of children of federal employees, including servicemen. With this bill at the ready, White House Aide Larry O'Brien snapped: "Let's have this damn thing out right here...
...first major Administration legislative item to come up for floor vote in Congress found O'Brien with his organizational fences not yet in place. It was the feed-grains bill, which found rural and urban Congressmen bitterly divided. About the only appeal that O'Brien and his staffers could make to Democratic Congressmen was not to let the President down on his first bill-"Let's win this one for Jack, Jackie and little Caroline." The bill passed the House by seven votes-and since then O'Brien has been able to move more sophisticated weapons...
...earliest to spot Jack Kennedy's presidential potential. In 1946 he told O'Brien: "Kennedy's a real comer. He can go all the way.") On the Hill, Boland's office has become an anteroom to O'Brien's headquarters, and other Congressmen have come to regard the Springfield Democrat as the resident of Capitol Hill who has the most direct line to O'Brien...
...Some Congressmen urge President Kennedy to invoke the Trading with the Enemy Act and thus halt U.S.-Cuba trade altogether. Kennedy has held back. The threat remains, and the U.S. is ready to act if Castro makes another rash move...