Word: congressmen
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Actually, some 70% of the Foreign Service's "booze allowance" goes for food rather than drink. And ironically, many of the personal entertainment debts are rung up because of demands made by U.S. visitors-particularly Congressmen. In 1959, some 200 Congressmen stopped by in Madrid, all deserving of hospitality from Ambassador John Lodge. Ambassador to Brazil John Moors Cabot, who usually spends $5,000 from his own pocket on entertainment, has had to wine and dine 28 U.S. Governors and their wives and half a dozen congressional groups in the last six months. Says he: "You've just...
Easter season is a time for Congressmen to go home, where the votes are, and cock attentive ears to the voice of the people. If the voice comes through loud and clear enough, it can change a Congressman's mind about what stands he should take on what issues. In that sense, the spring recess is an occasion for a national summing up. And last week Senators and Representatives around the U.S. achieved remarkable agreement in their findings: the folks back home like President John Kennedy. They are fascinated by his vigor and by his virtuosity in juggling crises...
Conservatives, Congressmen, clergymen and Communists were all sounding off last week about the way-way-right John Birch Society (TIME, March 10). Items: ¶Said Richard Cardinal Gushing of the society and its founder, Robert Welch: "Everyone must salute the efforts of sincere and dedicated men who engage in anti-Communist efforts. Robert Welch is such a man. On the other hand, we must deplore the exaggeration and excesses which discredit even a good thing. Anyone who suggests that President Eisenhower promoted Communist causes is speaking in absurdities."¶U.S. Communist Chairman Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, 70, solemnly refuted Welch...
This view, held by many liberal Congressmen, is misguided. Investigations are properly conducted to gather evidence, not to punish. An investigation by Congress or the Attorney General should not be a Great Crusade. It should, to use a liberal cliche, refrain from "exposure for exposure's sake...
...Administration as those following Kennedy's announcement that the Pentagon will close down 73 military installations in the U.S. and overseas. Moving fast, McNamara issued orders to shutter the first 52 bases-and moving just as fast in outraged protest were scores of community voices and Congressmen whose districts will be affected...