Word: presidentitis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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At President Nixon's request, Thompson recently spent five weeks touring Viet Nam. He found some of the improvements since 1968 to be "astounding." Though the Tet offensive was a Communist psychological victory, he contends, it was militarily "suicidal." "The thing that surprised me more than anything else was...
Two weeks ago, the President bitterly attacked Congress for its inflationary tendencies and threatened to veto the "Christmas tree" tax bill. Last week he added the massive Labor and Health, Education and Welfare appropriations bill and a relatively minor coalmine-safety bill to his possible veto list. Said Nixon in...
Nixon's words were wasted on the Republicans, however; the Democrats control Congress. After a Friday-morning breakfast caucus, Democratic leaders announced that they intended to ignore Nixon's warnings and might even try to override any presidential veto, though it is questionable whether they can muster the...
As Congress virtually completed action on all 14 major appropriations bills, it was plain that the lawmakers' priorities differed considerably from Nixon's. In three areas-agriculture, public works and transportation-they added a total of $893 million to the funds originally sought by the President. In the...
Despite Nixon's attempt to blame Capitol Hill for encouraging inflation, Democratic Congressmen argue that they will ultimately appropriate at least $6.8 billion less than the $143 billion requested by the President. That figure is misleading, since it does not take into account such continuing commitments as the increase...