Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minute by more prudent advisers. But even this story partially was reported last November in the Times, and Reeves simply doesn't add much more. This means that some of the most interesting reading comes in the footnotes to Convention, where Reeves mentions the rumors that some New York congressmen voted not to override President Ford's veto of the strip-mining bill in exchange for a key Virginia congressman's vote for New York as the convention site...
Rubbed the wrong way. Congressmen began to counterattack. Some pointed out that Sprague's budget request was almost eight times the $1.7 million expended for Nixon's impeachment inquiry and Ford's confirmation hearings put together. Congressman Dale Milford demanded "hard evidence" that the Warren Commission had been wrong in declaring that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone when he shot Kennedy. Just before the House vote last week, a report leaked that the Justice Department had confirmed its finding that James Earl Ray had indeed been acting alone when he shot King...
Still, the Congressmen could not risk disbanding the committee altogether: they might be accused some day of somehow taking part in a conspiracy to cover up the truth. The House ordered the committee to come up with a "realistic budget" in two months' time and to produce evidence that the investigation might lead somewhere...
Like black Americans elsewhere, these Congressmen have a sense that because of Roots, something good has happened to race relations?even if they cannot quite define what. Perhaps it is simply that the gulf between black and white has been narrowed a bit and the level of mutual understanding has been raised a notch...
...been sought on energy policy. "Obviously we should do that, and we will do it," said Carter softly-with a nod to Frank Moore, his chief of congressional liaison. Moore was criticized during the transition period for not touching enough bases on Capitol Hill and not returning Congressmen's phone calls...