Word: congressmen
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Larry's move out front may also benefit the nation. So highly do Congressmen regard his drive and organizational talents that many last week were already looking forward to better postal service under "General" O'Brien, as his 600,000 employees will now call him. After all, without reasonably efficient mail, how could its citizens ever convince each other that Lyndon's Society was Great...
Outmaneuvered. At home, Johnson had another kind of skirmish to contend with. While a lot of Republicans out in the country have been backing Johnson's fighting stance in Viet Nam, some G.O.P. Congressmen have felt that it is time to debate the subject. This is pretty hard to do without sounding like a speaker at a college teach-in. But the G.O.P.sters thought they detected a mild rift between Johnson and Eisenhower in their respective positions on Viet Nam and decided to move into the breach. Naturally, they drafted a "white paper...
Education, as Lyndon Johnson has repeatedly observed, is the door to the Great Society, and the 89th Congress has been eager to unbolt it. The $1.3 billion Elementary and Secondary Education Act passed just before the Easter recess, stirred great interest among constituents back home, and Congressmen have been even more enthusiastic about the Administration's companion bill, which authorizes new subsidies for colleges and universities. By the time it reached the House floor last week, Adam Clayton Powell's Education and Labor Committee had more than dou bled the Administration's original request for $260 million...
President Johnson, in an emphatic press-conference statement, came to the defense of his Secretary of State, and Schlesinger's onslaught seems to have left Rusk more secure in his job than ever. At a briefing for more than 130 Congressmen last week, Rusk got an unexpected standing ovation; and at a White House dinner for 100 business men, he got by far the greatest salvo of applause...
...astray. The Senate has already passed and the House is considering a bill that would exempt from antitrust action the banks involved in the six current cases. The bill would also make it vastly more difficult for Justice to bring antitrust suits against other U.S. banks, which many Congressmen feel are already amply regulated by federal agencies...