Word: congressmen
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...applied personal pressure to the Texas delegation and sanctioned a public relations offensive by White House aides and Cabinet members. New York Republican Charles Goodell described the result as the "Johnson juggernaut." The Administration won strong allies among church and education lobbies, which generally approve the existing system. Some Congressmen-Ford included-reported that they got more mail opposing Quie's measure than they had ever received on any single previous issue...
...soldiers realize that dissent may be lengthening the war, or at least reducing any inclination the North Vietnamese might have to negotiate. But Congressmen Hebert and Rivers, and others who try to stifle dissent, are seeking to destroy one of the very freedoms we're defending. We'd rather the Carmichaels and Kings abuse these freedoms than have our Congressmen limit them and destroy them. Even a few kooks burning draft cards aren't as disheartening as a Congressman crying, "Let's forget the First Amendment...
Some Southern Congressmen, one intrepid newsman (Erwin Knoll of Newhouse National News Service) reported, had said that the Administration was granting major concessions on desegregation guidelines in return for Southern support for its school aid bill. Was this kind of horse trading going...
With the passage of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965--a huge windfall for the nation's school systems--impoverished Southern districts began at long last to open doors to Negroes in order to keep the money coming. The anguished cries from Southern Congressmen are evidence as much of the impoverishment of the region's schools as of the guideline's effectiveness...
...there is a more direct way of eliminating the guidelines, and Southern Congressmen are exacting it as a price for their support of the Administration bill. A House appropriations subcommittee has already moved to bar the use of federal funds to achieve school desegregation...