Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...believe that Johnson can ride roughshod over Congress. At a recent Washington meeting of the American Political Science Association, Neustadt observed: "Underneath our images of Presidents-in-boots, astride decisions, are the half-observed realities of Presidents-in-sneakers, stirrups in hand, trying to induce particular department heads, or Congressmen, or Senators to climb aboard. A sensible President is always checking off his list of 'influentials...
Whether in boots or in sneakers, Lyndon Johnson has unquestionably achieved most of his legislative aims. And when Congressmen finally get home-on crutches?-they are likely to be hailed as heroes in their own right...
View from the Air. First Johnson bundled seven disaster-relief experts off to storm-battered Florida aboard a White House jet. Then, as damage reports from New Orleans worsened, he decided to head for the action. Louisiana Congressmen were called and told that they had half an hour to get on over to the White House if they wanted to come along. In another 45 minutes, Air Force One took off with Johnson, Senators Allen Ellender and Russell Long, Representatives Hale Boggs, Otto Passman, James Morrison, Joe Waggon-ner Jr. and Edwin Willis...
What with the griping about Congressmen's children filling up summer Government jobs that might have gone to needy teenagers, Wisconsin's Senator Bill Proxmire, 49, did the simplest thing, wrote out checks totaling $1,806.80 as an "unconditional gift" to the U.S. Treasury to repay the wages his son and step-daughter made for two summers in their vacation jobs with the Post Office, Navy, and National Park Service. As for the kids, they got to keep their money "because they earned it." Besides, added the Senator ruefully, "if you know teenagers, they don't give...
...Manhattan's Chinatown, the bands blared When the Saints Go Marchin' In. On Capitol Hill, the Congressmen gave her a luncheon, and an admiring State Department man quipped, "She knows the United States so well I wouldn't be surprised if she produced a hot dog from the sleeve of her dress." A lot of people persisted in saying that Madame Chiang Kaishek, 67, had something up her sleeve as she sampled U.S. cooking and opinion for the first time in seven years. But Nationalist China's graceful First Lady, moving into the presidential suite...