Word: session
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...90th Congress ended its cantankerous first session last week, Lyndon Johnson gave the nation a preview of his re-election campaign. A dominant theme in 1968, he made clear, would be the mass-and the meaning -of legislation he has extracted from Capitol Hill since he took office. And for whatever laws the President wanted and failed to get, Republican obstructionism would take the blame...
...Buggy. Johnson gave credit to the 90th Congress, but, he preached, "we need great Congresses again, not just good ones." And in his choicest invective, he excoriated the Republicans, particularly in the House, for making the 90th's first session un-great. "In vote after vote," he declared, "the House members of the other party lined up like wooden soldiers of the status quo." Rather than provide constructive alternatives, the Republicans sought to bury good bills "in a blanket of rhetoric beneath a wave of reaction...
...broad lobby in this country. And when Ford attacked the "pretty bad record" of the 89th, he was forgetting the millions of voters benefiting from that Congress's historically significant output. The present Congress, while producing some good legislation, was far from a standout performer during its first session...
Along with its legislative record, each Congress writes its own short hand label: innovative or standpat, Micawberish or Scroogian, spineless or rebellious. The 90th's first session fell somewhere in between on each count. It reflected rather too faithfully the national condition of confusion and contention over Viet Nam and the urban crisis. Unable to change the course of either, its mood was often one of angry frustration. The fight over the proposed tax increase and efforts to curb federal spending flavored the entire session, giving it a bitter taste-but no tax bill and only marginal savings...
...unless he destroyed or turned in his draft card, thus removing the threat to mere demonstrators. House members planned similar bills, including one already offered that would bring Selective Service under White House supervision. None of the measures, of course, can be acted upon until 1968, when the next session of Congress convenes. Eight Representatives, however, signed a statement urging that Hershey himself be drafted-into retirement...