Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nominated, Lyndon seemed to be bursting with exhilaration. He rose at 5:30 a.m., signed an important amendment to the Atomic Energy Act allowing private firms to buy nuclear fuels rather than lease them from the Government, conferred during the day by phone or in person with some 70 Congressmen, a couple of dozen Governors, countless labor leaders and businessmen over the vice-presidential selection...
Humphrey won election to the Senate that year, and no sooner had he been sworn in than he rose to lace into his Senate colleagues. "What people want," he cried, "is for the Senate to function! Sometimes I think we become so cozy-we feel so secure in our six-year term-that we forget that the people want things done...
...with skill and determination Humphrey rose rapidly in the Senate. He assumed positions of power in the Foreign Relations, Government Operations and Appropriations Committees. In his first two terms he sponsored a phenomenal total of 1,044 bills and joint resolutions. And though the final bills did not bear his name, Humphrey proposals have led to such major legislative accomplishments as the Peace Corps, the National Defense Education Act and the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Last year Humphrey was deservedly among U.S. representatives at the signing of the limited nuclear test ban treaty in Moscow...
Against McNamara, the Humphreymen could and did take counteraction. They circulated among labor leaders a report that the President had decided to choose between Humphrey and McNamara-and leaned to McNamara. The labor leaders, including A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, rose to the bait, let the President know that McNamara, a former Ford Motor Co. president, was certainly not labor's idea of an ideal Vice President. Moreover, many longtime professionals were strongly opposed to McNamara as a man who, until he went to the Pentagon, had been presumed to be a Republican...
...decreased during the four previous years, and steadily increased thereafter. As it happens, says Kamisar, 1957 marked "the alltime low for crime under the District's modern reporting system." In the full decade 1950-60, "although the national crime rate soared 98% , the District's rate barely rose at all." Although robberies did jump 115% between 1957 and 1962, adds Kamisar, the most likely cause was not Mallory but the capital's worsening economic and educational climate as a result of an overwhelming population burst...