Word: democratization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What Goldberg hoped above all to cool was the increasingly intemperate and illogical verbal donnybrook over Viet Nam. Other referees weighed in. In the Senate, Washington Democrat Henry Jackson said that both sides "ought to be engaged in reasoning together, not in cutting each other up." In the House, Ohio's Robert Taft called for "a pause in verbal bombing...
...billion and $8 billion off projected federal spending in the current fiscal year. The exact amount was impossible to reckon because of massive loopholes embodied in overlapping amendments approved by the House and because the actual amount of war expenditures is uncertain. The first amendment, proposed by Mississippi Democrat Jamie Whitten, would limit spending for many activities to last year's level. But the Viet Nam war and a number of domestic programs such as highway construction and Medicare were specifically exempted from the ceiling. The second amendment, put forward by Ohio Republican Frank Bow, put an arbitrary limit...
...Illinois' Republican Senator Everett Dirksen at his Virginia home, six steel executives-whose companies had just increased domestic steel prices-persuaded the minority leader to back a bill that would slash imports of 125 kinds of foreign steel products by as much as 40%. South Carolina's Democratic Senator Ernest Rollings meanwhile got 68 Senate cosponsors for a bill that would reduce imports of textiles from 2.7 billion sq. yds. a year to 1.7 billion sq. yds. In all, the seven bills would lower imports on a range of products including beef, mutton, veal, mink skins, zinc, footwear...
Legislative Ploy. Lobbyists, signing up in record numbers to support the bills, pushed a legislative ploy to accomplish it. The quota legislation ended up in Louisiana Democrat Russell Long's Senate Finance Committee as riders on a bill raising social security benefits 12.5%. The reasoning was that President Johnson would be loath to veto the social security provisions. Jubilantly, Oscar R. Strackbein, who as chairman of the Nationwide Committee for Import-Export Policy is the chief lobbyist for high tariffs and has been around Washington longer than many a legislator, predicted that this time trade restrictions would be adopted...
...Lindsay can maintain the pace and record he has set so far in "un governable" Gotham, he may well prove a formidable opponent by 1972 or 1976 for Bobby or any other Democrat. He is a dove on Viet Nam, but maintains: "I do not believe, and never have, that the U.S. should unilaterally withdraw from Viet Nam tomorrow." His intimacy with the urban crisis is his trump card for the future, since that is likely to be the No. 1 U.S. domestic problem for generations...