Word: congressmen
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...growing number of Congressmen fear that U.S. involvement in Angola may be the first step toward another Viet Nam-style quagmire. Declared California Democrat John Tunney, leader of the Senate's fight to halt the aid though not noted for his expertise in foreign affairs: "For the past 30 years, we have given the military adventurists what they wanted and they have gone everywhere and done everything, getting us involved in everybody else's business from Asia to Latin America and now, so it seems, Africa." Republican Senator Charles Percy of Illinois complained that the U.S. was "getting...
...Lyndon Baines Johnson internships are the most popular," Francis said, noting that these are the only salaried internships available. Because there is intense competition for these positions, Francis told the assembled students they should apply to their own Congressmen...
...chief executives of big corporations have far more executive experience than Senators and Congressmen, and some have training approaching that of Governors. The leaders of business have to deal with many varied constituencies-employees, shareholders, corporate directors, state and federal legislators, Government regulators, the press, consumer activists. The interests of these groups often conflict and, as in politics, the chief executive has to adjudicate. He learns, sooner than many professional politicians seem to, that you cannot promise everything to everybody. And like the successful politician, he has the fire in the belly; he could not have arrived where...
...magazine that congressmen and editors have always liked to read. Liberals in search of an opinion could find out what to think in often long, detailed articles, that made important and sometimes boring reading. Its reputation has been established by the contributions of such notables as Walter Lippmann '10, George Santayana '86, George Bernard Shaw, and Bertrand Russell. Peretz describes his readership as "over-educated, over-politicized, and over-affluent...the opinion-making elite...
Defending the bureau, Adams asked that critics remember what the country was like in the late 1960s: "We had cities being burned and educational institutions being bombed. People were dying ... Presidents, Congressmen−no one said 'Do this' or 'Don't do that.' That's why we are looking for guidelines...