Word: congressmen
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THROUGHOUT the summer, prospects have been bleak for civil rights supporters in Congress. Wary Congressmen, watching the swing to the right among the home voters, have lost much of their ardor for further federal civil rights legislation. Those guiding welfare bills through the House watched helplessly as the inevitable budget cuts took alarmingly large chunks out of their appropriations. Then, in June, the bomb fell. Guided by Congressman Jamie Whitten of Mississippi, the House came within inches of saddling an $18 billion HEW bill with a rider that threatened to return school desegregation efforts to the medieval...
Administration officials and liberal Congressmen called the punitive restriction unfair, unconstitutional, and unwarranted meddling. It was also unnecessary, they argued, because a disruptive student would probably be suspended or expelled and so lose his aid anyway. But the House disagreed. It was passing the ban precisely because it felt that university officials lacked the "intestinal fortitude" to act against demonstrators...
Some of Agnew's major miscues have been unintentional ethnic slurs. He jovially referred to a Japanese-American reporter accompanying him as a "fat Jap." In Chicago, where the Congressmen have names like Pucinski, Kluczynski and Rostenkowski, he answered a question about the dearth of Negroes in his audiences by saying: "Very frankly, when I am moving in a crowd I don't look and say, 'Well, there's a Negro, there's an Italian, and there's a Greek and there's a Polack.' " Before newsmen late last week, Agnew sought...
...example, did not even send its own man to cover the 1965 disturbances at Selma, Ala. The Journal and the Constitution are each allowed only one correspondent in Washington, and the correspondent's activity is largely restricted to reporting the utterances of Georgia's Senators and Congressmen. Patterson and other editors have argued for more money for their staffs and more coverage of the news, but their efforts have met with little success...
...readily tolerate an efficient man. He is, after all, a rebuke to others. As a result, most efficient men diplomatically try to appear less efficient than they are. Not Robert McNamara. The ablest of the nation's Secretaries of Defense refused to play "Lovable Bob" for Congressmen, some of whom did not forgive him. Now he is running something of the same risk with his reading public. The Essence of Security is not the gossipy memoir or the in-fighter's recollection that many readers might prefer. Rather it is a businesslike assembly of "policy statements," a kind...