Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week, President Kennedy had announced the formation of his Peace Corps of volunteer workers in underdeveloped countries (TIME, Feb. 24), and the half-organized headquarters was engulfed with requests for information, applications from would-be recruits. In other parts of the capital, the story was the same: Congressmen reported a deluge of mail; the White House was hard pressed to answer 5,000 letters. The Peace Corps had captured the public imagination as had no other single act of the Kennedy Administration...
...urged his listeners to concentrate more on electing right-wing Congressmen. White House is not going to save the country; it has to be the Capitol he maintained. "It is our responibility to develop a loyal, intelligent in Congress...
Despite these conflicting pressures, Congressmen seldom have to choose between principle and expediency, for without general agreement of principle, they would not be elected. Brademas added that mail matters only when the issue is not one of personal principle. Quoting a colleague's paraphrase of Burke, he said, "If they wanted decisions made by weighting mail, they would have elected a butcher...
...Over?" His appointment list was crammed. The President was very available, from breakfast sessions with the Democratic leaders of Congress to moonlight meetings with the airline strike fact-finding commission. He was especially attentive to Congressmen, many of whom were dazzled by the ardent courtship. When Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg hurried to the Oval Room with the airlines' strike settlement in his dispatch case (see BUSINESS), Kennedy greeted him with a broad grin and a question: "Is it over?" By personally announcing that it was, he signaled that he intends to wade deep into national labor controversies...
...Most Congressmen will be grateful for time-saving summaries and data tables that have made it easier to find the phase that interests them most--financial assistance. However, many of the council's proposals will not appeal to their generosity or tempt them to support extension of the NDEA. Many unpalatable recommendations are aimed at education-conscious foundations which have attitudes different from constituent-conscious Congressmen. This conflict has resulted in contradictions which reveal a fundamental uncertainty among members of the National Council themselves...