Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their part, canny Congressmen make doubly sure of preserving and developing their own districts by selling tickets to Big Mike's fund-raising dinners, digging his ditch and seeing to it that they are present and accounted for each year when his appropriations bill comes to the floor...
That figure now stands at $4.5 billion, and a few cost-conscious Congressmen insist that the U.S., rather than pay that price, ought to withdraw entirely from the SST race. Asks Wisconsin's Demo cratic Senator William Proxmire: "Is this the time to spend federal money on this jet-set frill...
...that, there are signs that the President is resigning himself to the fact that he will never be loved by all of the people all of the time. At a recent White House session with 30 Democratic freshman Congressmen all edgy about the November elections, Johnson promised to do whatever he could to assist them: campaign in their home districts, stay away-or even, he suggested with a grin, campaign against them, if that would help...
...With 200 Congressmen, auto exectives and Administration officials on hand at the White House, President Johnson last week signed into law two auto-safety bills. Also present: Ralph Nader (Unsafe at Any Speed). One bill offers federal financial incentives to the states to develop more effective traffic-safety programs. The other requires the Secretary of Commerce to promulgate, by next Jan. 31, safety standards that will become mandatory for automakers in their 1968 models. It also sets up, within the Commerce Department, a new National Traffic Safety Agency...
...streets outside U.S. embassies, and USIA libraries are burned. Headlines are black and thunderous; U.S. allies look grave and offer to mediate; the United Nations is in an uproar. In the U.S., sandals and beards and protest signs turn up everywhere. The liberal press is in a frenzy. Congressmen and Senators shake their heads solemnly and charge the U.S. with attempting to police the world...