Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...priority list for presidential visits are 48 districts where freshmen Democrats who were swept into office in the 1964 landslide are struggling to keep constituents from reverting to their traditionally Republican voting ways. Johnson, for example, plans to lend a particular hand to Iowa's six Democratic Congressmen...
Firsthand Look. To lend the trip suitable nonpartisan trappings, the President corralled three Republican Congressmen to join his party of 100, picked up others along the way. In Buffalo, he also met New York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller, and they both took a look at sewage-contaminated water. In Syracuse, the crowd of 100,000 in Columbus Square listened to Johnson's review of the cities' plight, but really stirred only when New York's Senators Robert F. Kennedy and Jacob K. Javits arrived. Bobby evoked shrieks, was still shaking hands as the President climbed...
...astonishment, District Court Judge Howard Corcoran granted a temporary restraining order to allow a three-judge appeals panel to deal with the constitutional question. Corcoran's action was unprecedented-no judge had ever before enjoined a congressional committee hearing-and it brought a roar of protest from Congressmen. Just before the hearing was to open, a three-judge panel, including Corcoran himself, dissolved the injunction and put off the constitutional question for future deliberation...
Astonished Congressmen are beginning to realize that they have created what amounts to an open-end drain on the federal treasury, and are now considering passing economizing amendments. But the most difficult trick in Government is to take back a benefit once it has been granted...
...could not engage in collective bargaining while a congressional club was being held over his head, merely used the proposed legislation as an excuse for walking away from negotiations. Last week, after it was all over, Siemiller claimed that the strike would have ended a month ago if Congressmen like Morse had "just kept quiet." However dubious that claim may be, the fact remains that Congress, fearful of losing labor votes, ended up doing nothing...