Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sometimes his praise of Congressmen who have played a major role in getting a key bill through becomes a bit fulsome. He recently told Florida's second-term Congressman Sam Gibbons, House floor manager for a measure that more than doubled the cost of the President's anti-poverty program: "I've been reading the Congressional Record; I don't see how you did it. You did a magnificent job. Your kids will always be proud of you, and your President is mighty proud...
...party caucus just before the opening of the 89th Congress, Ohio's veteran Representative Mike Kirwan had some words of wisdom for freshman Democratic Congressmen. "Just follow the leader," said Kirwan, "and use your franking privilege. It's free...
...freshmen have followed that advice-and, with the exception of seven Southern Congressmen who owe their allegiance elsewhere, their fidelity to the programs of their party leader, Lyndon Johnson, has established them as just about the solidest voting bloc in Congress. The 58 non-Southern-bloc freshman Democrats differ greatly. Oklahoma's Jed Johnson is 25, while Iowa's John Hansen is the oldest at 63. Wisconsin's John Race is a machinist and New York's James Hanley is a mortician. California's John V. Tunney, son of the ex-heavyweight boxing champion...
...they weren't good. The unanimous verdict: Sarge baby, and CBS, which picked up the tab for the time and the $250,000 production cost, had been taken in by self-promoting Murray the K. "Uncle Sam done flipped his wig," said the New York Herald Tribune. Republican Congressmen were indignant -in fact, "almost incandescent in their fulminations," reported Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen following a G.O.P. policy-committee luncheon. Colorado's Republican U.S. Senator Gordon Allott phoned CBS President Frank Stanton and announced, "I am about to throw...
...Outta My Face." Murray's defense was that the sort of show that would have pleased the critics and Congressmen would have made no dent on the "out-of-school, out-of-work, out-of-luck kids" that the poverty program was all about. "You can't play a sonata or a fugue and hope to reach kids when a majority of them can't even read or add properly. How many critics and politicians bothered to check with our special audience to find their reaction?" Murray had a rebuttal, too, for those who complained that...