Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Before the election, Wisconsin's Melvin Laird, chairman of the House Republican Conference, observed cagily that to become a serious presidential contender, Romney would not only have to win reelection by a heavy margin but would also have to carry G.O.P. Senator Robert Griffin and a couple of doubtful Congressmen in with...
...students, housewives, and Negro Vietnam veterans, stressed these figures wherever they went. "Lots of people decided they weren't so hot for the war" when "we connected local issues with that distant legislation in Washington. Nobody had ever tried to do that with them before. They've always had Congressmen who stayed in Washington...
...will come as sweet balm to those burdened with hour exams to learn that Congressmen don't do their reading either. The most recent demonstration is the passage of the bill creating the Department of Transportation...
...ease-up-for-a-while feeling spreading among many well-meaning whites. What do your "remarkable" progress, "dramatic gains," "soaring" percentage increases, "impressive" and "enormous" advances add up to? More segregation in Northern schools, limping tokenism in the South, rising unemployment, widening income disparities, a few Negro Congressmen, and a general slowdown of progress in housing and school integration enforcement. Your estimate that the "Negro's choices are widening with fair rapidity" and that we have come "an incredibly long way" since Lincoln depends on what you consider fair and credible...
...Johnson landslide. With off-year elections traditionally favoring the out party, estimates of G.O.P. gains range all the way from ten to 75 seats. Conceding that the loss of even 25 seats could stall the Great Society, Democratic leaders are nonetheless confident that most of their freshmen Congressmen, beneficiaries of circumstance in 1964, can now hold their own. Says one L.B.J. aide: "They're our great plus factor this election...