Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...University teaching fellows will go to Washington next November for nine months of first-hand experience on the staffs of Congressmen...
...take the easy way out by enlarging the House. Sixteen House-expansion bills, written mostly by jeopardized members, have already been introduced. Support is building for the bill sponsored by Kentucky's Frank Chelf, a measure that would add 34 new seats, saving 17 of the threatened Congressmen...
...maiden name, his economic and educational milieu-information that has proved invaluable in finding undreamed of ways to reach a man. A tough, candid operator. O'Brien has already talked over the President's program with several congressional delegations, told them that the White House will call Congressmen with good news for constituents, leave unpleasant announcements to Cabinet members. Congress has already learned that when a man votes against the President, more and more of those announcements will be coming from the Cabinet...
...often than his stick: day after day, congressional leaders have dropped by the White House for chats-and exposure to the effortless Kennedy charm. But he threw the full weight of his prestige behind House Speaker Sam Rayburn in the fight over the Rules Committee, personally calling up important Congressmen to get their support. On his order, most of his Cabinet members lobbied too. Interior Secretary Stewart Udall was caught red-handed threatening cuts in big public projects in retribution for anti-Rayburn votes. Somewhat nervously, Udall telephoned the White House to ask if he had done right in telling...
Powell's Abyssinian Baptist Church. On hand to lead the obeisances were Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Abraham Ribicoff and Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg, eleven Congressmen, A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, and Walter Reuther's brother...