Word: congressmen
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...from the White House is bound to stir a skeptical reaction. For a growing number of Republican leaders, in particular, no amount of rosy predictions will conceal the fact that Lyndon Johnson is vulnerable on the war issue. That conviction was reinforced during the Labor Day recess, when vacationing Congressmen sounded out their constituents. Said Kentucky's Republican Senator Thruston Morton: "The people I talked to a year ago were saying, 'Bomb hell out of that little country.' Now they're saying, 'Get out.' They're frustrated...
...this year. "I think the boys are just going to stand around the campfire for a couple of weeks," said Republican Representative Herman T. Schneebeli, a member of Mills's committee. "It's going to be a study in slow motion." Ranged against the experts are Congressmen who must face the voters next year; even as Congress voted a record $70 billion appropriation for defense, they were showing no inclination to vote the taxes...
Guns & Necessities. Instead, like many other Congressmen, the Ways and Means chairman argues that the President cannot afford to fight on two fronts, simultaneously battling the Viet Cong and domestic poverty, without making sacrifices. Johnson, echoed ranking Republican Committeeman John W. Byrnes, must tell the people: "We can't afford the gravy and the butter-we've got to get down to the guns and the necessities." Before he will change his mind, Mills insists that the President must slash billions from housekeeping bills and defer new projects, as the U.S. has always done in wartime...
...many in the House, the times suggested sharp cuts in U.S. aid commitments abroad. The huge costs of the war, urban turmoil at home, and the President's request for a new 10% surcharge on income taxes all convinced scores of Congressmen that some part of a looming $29 billion federal deficit could be offset by performing major surgery on foreign aid programs. The Senate, for its part, had already slashed the bill by some $750 million...
Since President Johnson authorized 45,000 more servicemen for Viet Nam -to bring total troop strength there to 525,000 by next July-Congressmen have questioned whether the men can be supplied without jeopardizing U.S. commitments elsewhere or mobilizing the reserves. The answer, says the Pentagon, is that indeed they...