Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When Rusk was not conferring with the President, he was wading through a herculean schedule: writing memos, sifting intelligence reports, receiving ambassadors, speechmaking, conferring with aides, answering Congressmen's questions. Among his visitors during the week: British Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart and Defense Minister Denis Healey, who brought the welcome news that any "adjustments" in British commitments east of Suez would be made "without significant loss of strength." On normal days, 1,200 cables cascade into Foggy Bottom; when things are bubbling, 1,800. They are usually bubbling. "The world is round," says Rusk. "Only one-third...
...Washington and four European capitals on the topic of Viet Nam in an hour-long Meet the Press session that was transmitted by Early Bird satellite. Four times he went up to Capitol Hill for hearings on the war, and despite his well-deserved reputation for wizardry at handling Congressmen, some of the sessions were so grueling that even Buddha-faced Rusk came out looking haggard and upset. Said Pennsylvania's Democratic Senator Joseph Clark after the Foreign Relations Committee had kept Rusk on the griddle for three hours: "The poor guy had a pretty hard time between...
Unhappy Wretch. After detailing the effects of the pause, the President asked the Congressmen for their views. When Mansfield's turn came, he pulled out a hurriedly written two-page
...they oppose it) to abolishing the House Un-American Activities Committee (in favor). Both candidates fit the liberal, independent mold dear to the hearts of 17th District voters. Party labels mean little there; the Democrats have a registration edge of 38,000, but the district has elected Republican Congressmen since...
There is a danger, too, that if Congress were elected for four years, members would ignore very significant social phenomena. Some Southern Congressmen, for example, if now serving a four-year term, might be less concerned about the attitudes of their new Negro voting-constituents-in some districts, they could continue to reject Negro voters and ride into office on the President's coattails. A few Southern politicians have begun to make the transitions necessary to please an integrated electorate: they know Negroes will be voting in future elections...