Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What Humphrey has, as does Richard Nixon among the Republicans, is the affection and indebtedness of hundreds of influential party officials around the country?Congressmen, mayors, Governors, state committeemen?for whom he has campaigned, raised funds and opened many doors in Washington. He must now translate these lOUs into meaningful support...
...Many Congressmen concluded that the President had simply welshed on his promise to let Congress do the chopping. Johnson aides countered that L.B.J. had never said he would let Congress cut anywhere it wanted. Neither side seems likely to give in any time soon. Some key figures in the dispute think that the whole matter will be left up to a new Congress and a new President. Meanwhile, the economy spurts ahead, with no slowdown in sight...
...Frank sounds slightly beleaguered, it is only understandable. All winter long, he and other TV newsmen have been warding off a chilly gale of complaints from Senators, Congressmen, city officials, policemen and viewers in general. The most frequent charge leveled by the critics is that television, with its vast reach and visual impact, is in a sense the germ carrier that spreads the plague of riots across the U.S. The question, in short, is whether the sight of a Harlem youth hurling a brick through a store window and shouting "Black Power!" induces a ghetto teen ager in Detroit...
...likelihood is, of course, that our Mayor--like most Mayors (and Congressmen)--will struggle through his term fighting dilemmas based on group competition instead of resolving them...
...this is a time when congressional leadership must take charge and take some chances," he said. "This is no time for congressmen to be running home and putting their fingers to the wind of public opinion...