Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...commission-a mixed bag of Congressmen, lawyers, educators, psychiatrists and sociologists-was established last year. Its report recommends self-policing by the networks and suggests guidelines. These include a reduction in programs that contain violence; elimination of violence from children's programs; and adoption of the British practice of scheduling crime and adventure stories in the evening after children...
...particular, the report of 22 Republican Congressmen who made an unpublicized tour of campuses, including Harvard, last spring seems to have swung members of their party over to join the core of Liberal Democrats who have opposed the bills all along...
Although Nixon's offensive sounds good to anti-drug, anti-crime congressmen, the amount of actual controlling it accomplishes is highly questionable. One Mexican official said, "It's like trying to cure cancer with an aspirin. Drugs are a worldwide problem and stopping up a few borders is not going to stop...
...benign paparazzo during the White House years, recording most of L.B.J.'s waking moments and some of his sleeping ones, too. The photographer was a familiar sight at every Cabinet meeting, every National Security Council meeting. Johnson wanted Okamoto with him constantly, taking pictures of L.B.J. with Congressmen, L.B.J. with Kosygin, L.B.J. with grandson Lyn, even L.B.J. getting out of bed in the morning. Once, at his Texas ranch, Johnson directed Okamoto: "Get the back of that...
Less publicized but more significant were the Anderson investigative skills that put punch in columns on such figures as the "Five Percenters" of the Truman Administration, the "Kickback Congressmen" of the late '40s and early '50s, Senator Joseph McCarthy, FCC Commissioner Richard Mack and Congressman Adam Clayton Powell. It was also Anderson who persuaded office workers for Senator Thomas Dodd to turn over the Connecticut Democrat's incriminating files. Of the more than 100 Pearson-Anderson columns devoted to the Dodd affair, all but two were written by the junior partner...