Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weakening of the resolution on anti-semitism by the Ecumenical Council was a political move, there's no doubt about it," Heiko A. Oberman. Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History, declared yesterday after returning from the Council's recent session at the Vatican...
...Speaker, there being no further business," drawled Acting House Majority Leader Hale Boggs of Louisiana, "it is my honor and privilege to move that the first session of the 89th Congress do now adjourn." The clock stood at 12:52 a.m.; the Senate had quit two minutes earlier. To a chorus of yahoos, Speaker John McCormack banged his gavel, and the 40-odd members still on the floor headed jubilantly for the exits...
Thus, at long last, Congress wound up a first session whose record of legislative achievement (see box) was unsurpassed in bulk or scope by that of any other Congress in U.S. history -even by Franklin Roosevelt's celebrated 73rd. In a heartfelt thank-you message to his congressional lieutenants, Lyndon Johnson predicted: "What you have done will find a shining residence in the history books...
...Congress had also set records for the bookkeepers. In all, the 89th spent $119.3 billion-a total unprecedented in peacetime and one that will require decades to pay off; interest on this year's national debt alone came to $11 billion. With its oratorical blast, the session had filled more than 33,250 pages of the Congressional Record, another record, which cost the taxpayers only some...
...normal. The doctors removed the third and last drainage tube from his abdomen. Lady Bird took a brief out-of-town trip for the first time since the operation. Johnson conferred increasingly with officials. Dressed in a business suit with vest, he held his first ceremonial bill-signing session in the hospital. After putting his signature on a law requiring automobile manufacturers to meet new exhaust-control standards beginning with 1968 models, he delivered a little homily on the perils of air pollution and duly handed out the pens, bestowing two on Michigan's Senator Pat McNamara. "You passed...