Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...using a field commander in time of war as a spokesman for his own conduct of that war, President Johnson reveals either gross tactlessness or, more terrible, ignorance of or disregard for American tradition. Whatever the right or wrong of the Viet Nam war, those Senators and Congressmen who applauded this performance make the cause of democracy that much harder to sustain...
...drive toward school desegregation, Southern officials have found a ready whipping boy in U.S. Education Com missioner Harold Howe II. Though Howe has strictly followed the dictates of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, his zeal in implementing racial guidelines in the Deep South has fostered the belief among Southern Congressmen that he has discriminated against their districts while ignoring similar imbalances in Northern cities. Last week, in an obvious horse trade aimed at rallying reluctant Southern support for its hard-pressed $3.5 billion school-aid bill, the Johnson Administration transferred civil rights enforcement powers from Howe and the four other...
...Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, recuperating from pneumonia, left Walter Reed General Hospital and hurried to Capitol Hill with a statement: "We reiterate our wholehearted support of the Commander in Chief of our armed forces." House Minority Leader Gerald Ford seconded Dirksen, declaring that an "overwhelming majority" of G.O.P. Congressmen agreed that "we're not going to throw Viet Nam into the political arena...
...history. For dissent has flourished in all U.S. wars except World War II, when Pearl Harbor unified the nation. One-third of colonial Americans openly supported Britain in the Revolution; New England almost seceded in the War of 1812; the Mexican-American War was loudly scorned by such Congressmen as Abe Lincoln. During the Civil War, Lincoln himself was so reviled that at one point only one Congressman backed his re-election as President. Korea became "Truman's war"-and Ike's path to the White House. In scoffing at Stephen Decatur's maxim, "Our country, right...
...summer project is a much more ambitious venture, involving hundreds of students full-time and other thousands during the weekends. This kind of organizing, though limited in immediate scope, represents a constructive and exciting approach to mobilizing dissent. The students would encourage public discussion by persuading congressmen to hold local hearings, meet with "opinion makers" in the community and provide advice on "alternatives" to the draft...