Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leaders, and used his veto and the threat of his veto against lolly-gagging money bills. At year's end a balanced budget was in jeopardy, only because of the steel strike. Eisenhower had performed the political miracle of making economy popular. Grinned a White House staffer: "When those Congressmen come back in January, they're going to be so anxious to find something to cut that they'll cut their own wrists if necessary...