Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...describe a "call for a bombing pause and immediate negotiations" by several U.S. Congressmen. You quote: " 'It seems to me,' said Robert Kennedy, 'that we lose nothing if we sit down to negotiate...
When they heard that the National Educational Television channels were going to run a 49-minute excerpt of a documentary filmed in North Viet Nam, 33 U.S. Congressmen signed a letter accusing NET of "acting as a conduit of enemy propaganda." It was precipitate on two counts: 1) they had not seen the film, and 2) if they had, they would lave realized that there was no cause for alarm. Northth Viet Nam: A Personal Report, filmed by British Journalist Felix Greene, was so transparently tailored that only a twelve-year-old would buy its presumed authenticity...
Lyndon Johnson was interrupted by applause 53 times during his State of the Union address, but the cheers were mostly perfunctory and markedly partisan. Only once did he draw from his audience of Congressmen and Cabinet members, judges and generals a prolonged, spontaneous ovation. That was when he declared: "The American people have had enough of rising crime and lawlessness in this country...
...reknit the cloth of American purpose. Last week he seized an opportunity to do so. To succeed Robert McNamara as Secretary of Defense, the President chose Clark McAdams Clifford, 61, a veteran Washington lawyer and presidential confidant who is both loyal to Lyndon and well liked by key Congressmen, a trusted figure in three Administrations and yet one who is completely his own man on any subject of contemporary relevance...
...auto insurance. But how? In 1869, the Supreme Court ruled that "insurance is not commerce," thus exempting it from federal antitrust laws and congressional regulation of interstate commerce. In 1945, after the court had reversed itself, the McCarran-Ferguson Act put all insurance under state supervision. But many Congressmen now believe that the states are flunking the auto-insurance part of their job. A Senate subcommittee has called for a "root and branch" investigation of the entire industry. President Johnson echoed the request in his State of the Union message last week, and Senate hearings are due this spring...