Word: congressmen
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Some System. Carter stressed three topics: Government reorganization. White House liaison with Capitol Hill and the role of Congress in foreign affairs. Of the last, he asked: "How am I going to handle it? When I travel overseas, should I take Congressmen and Senators with me? I've got to come up with some kind of system where Congress is a part of this." Though he got no clear answer, he promised to go even beyond the kind of cooperation that existed in the late '40s and early '50s, when Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg and Democratic Senator...
Noting that he would meet with President Ford in the White House early this week, Carter said he also hopes to talk with a number of ranking Republican Congressmen. "I'm bitterly opposed to" that," protested O'Neill. "I think that's a terrible mistake. All the Republicans have done is obstruct. They are our opposition. It's the worst thing you can do." Muskie agreed with Tip. But Carter would not yield entirely. Said he: "I'm interested in meeting with Rhodes, Anderson and Michel [respectively, the House minority leader, the head...
...year, says Lee, now an associate professor of journalism at Western Illinois University, the KCIA effectively took over the South Korean embassy. KCIA men began to hold daily "orientation" sessions in which diplomats, says Lee, were directed "to organize businessmen" in support of the Park government and to "seduce Congressmen" with influence on U.S.-Korean relations...
...asked him where he was going." Kim, looking as if the question were naive, replied: "To the Capitol." Lee is convinced the money was intended for Congressmen and other officials...
Little Interest. Lee says it was common for the KCIA to hand junketeering Congressmen cash-filled envelopes to compensate them for their own and their wives' personal expenses on trips to South Korea. Thus the Congressmen could properly record and pay for their wives' expenses without being out of pocket at all. Lee, following his defection after 20 years of government service, testified to the FBI in 1973, but his allegations began to arouse interest only last summer, when a House International Relations subcommittee, headed by Minnesota Congressman Donald Fraser, again quizzed Lee. Fraser got the Justice Department...