Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...POVERTY: Johnson wants to double the $784 million appropriation he got last year for area-redevelopment and job-training programs. He will run into some skepticism from Congressmen with a show-us-some-results attitude, but sooner or later the liberal 89th will probably deliver...
...URBAN AFFAIRS: In 1961 John Kennedy proposed a Cabinet office to watch over the Government's city-oriented programs such as urban renewal and commuter transportation, as well as the federal complex of housing agencies. He was slapped down at least partly because Southern Congressmen suspected he was doing it to get Federal Housing and Home Finance Administrator Robert Weaver, a Negro, into the Cabinet. Weaver is still waiting in the wings, although Johnson has not committed himself as to who will occupy the post if it is created. Johnson will probably get this one through eventually...
...everything." A more apt description might be Mussolini Modern. It squats, like a huge, somber, white-marbled mausoleum, on an 8.3-acre plot, 700 ft. distant from the House wing of the Capitol. Four stories high, it is H-shaped, flat-roofed, contains three-room office suites for 169 Congressmen and their staffs (the other 266 Congressmen are housed in the old New House and the old Old Buildings), as well as nine standing-committee rooms, plus 19 committee anterooms, 18 small conference rooms, 51 committee staff rooms, 16 subcommittee rooms, a swimming pool, a gymnasium whose walls as well...
...from just the White House or the Senate, but from the House Democratic caucus. The Democratic Study Group (made up of 125 liberals) initiated the purge against Wattson and Williams; the Administration appears to have maintained strict neutrality. Nor did the Administration have to press for rules changes; liberal Congressmen got their package passed by their own efforts...
...praised the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party as "one of the most developments in the civil rights adding "if we had worked , we could have seated the three women who challenged the Mississippi congressmen...