Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With all the offices closing, the best the concert's organizers here could do was to try to apply last-minute pressure to senstors and congressmen who they felt would be friendly to the cause...
Like the countless other congressional missions to Indochina over the past decade, the most recent junket was a grueling, rapid plunge into the complexities of war and politics. There were mandatory visits with the heads of state, Nguyen Van Thieu in Saigon and Lon Nol in beleaguered Phnom-Penh. Congressmen William Chappell and John Murtha donned fatigues and trooped off to a Cambodian army post. After a tour of a huge refugee center set up in Phnom-Penh's unfinished Cambodiana Hotel, a shaken Millicent Fenwick, Republican Representative from New Jersey, said: "I can't believe this...
Hugh Sidey's comments concerning the week's activities at the White House [March 3] sickened me. Does Mr. Sidey suggest that the President, Senators, Congressmen, economists, et al., subsist on tuna casserole until solutions to the nation's economic ills are found...
...Jews in the House of Representatives are also a potent arm of the Jewish lobby. Their informal leader is Illinois Democrat Sid Yates, in whose office they assemble whenever a legislative emergency affecting Israel is at hand. Each of these Congressmen also operates independently...
During the Yom Kippur War, one of them, New York's Edward Koch, recalls, "I couldn't sleep. I thought I was witnessing the death of the Jewish state. Tears came to my eyes." After meeting in Yates' office, the Jewish Congressmen pushed a resolution urging that the U.S. resupply Israel. One black Congressman demurred, suggesting that he was unhappy with the wording of the preamble. Koch declared, "Look, I've signed a lot of your resolutions and I never ask you to cross the t's or dot the i's. This is the crunch." The man signed...