Word: foreign-aid
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...Congress this year rejected a batch of legislation, notably: a new civil rights bill with a controversial open-housing clause, a proposal to repeal the right-to-work section of the Taft-Hartley law, a measure giving home rule to the District of Columbia. Beyond that, Johnson's foreign-aid requests were slashed by nearly $500 million, and Administration measures to reform the Electoral College, create four-year House terms, and overhaul the 31-year-old unemployment-compensation system were never even brought to a final vote...
With evangelical eloquence and a country band, Jim Johnson stumped the state, attacking the "no-win" policy in Viet Nam, the evils of federal handouts, race riots in the big cities, and the "foreign-aid giveaway to every Hottentot country in the world." He promised that, if elected, he would cut taxes, give teachers a $500 pay raise and schoolchildren free textbooks, and bring more industry into the state. He also promised to bring prayers back to the schoolroom. "We're going to pray in our schools in this state," he declared, "and I don't believe Lyndon...
...Ordered a $280 million reduction in overseas expenditures for military, diplomatic and foreign-aid activities...
...more minutes of talk. The White House later leaked broad hints that the two had resolved their pent-up differences-though only a few hours later, Fulbright's committee coldly excised some of the conditions and funds that the President had demanded as essential to his foreign-aid program. In fact, the Arkansas Senator is as far as ever from a reconciliation with his quondam friend and colleague...
...Tokyo embassy windows for curtains-so that Reischauer can return to Harvard, which has offered him a newly created chair in Far Eastern politics. David Bell, head of the Agency for International Development, is also outward bound, most likely will join Bundy at the Ford Foundation after the current foreign-aid bill has been convoyed through Congress...