Word: weaver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issue was the President's proposal to create a new, Cabinet-level Department of Urban Affairs, with Federal Housing Administrator Robert C. Weaver, a Negro, at its head. Republican Senators and Congressmen opposed the idea of the department on grounds that it would merely add another cumbersome, costly layer to the federal bureaucracy. Southern Democrats inevitably were hostile to Weaver's appointment...
...veto the plan within 60 days, the Department of Urban Affairs would automatically achieve status. Kennedy made it perfectly plain that if Congress did turn down the plan, he would blame Republicans for being 1) unwilling to help the nation's cities, and 2) anti-Negro. And Weaver himself rubbed in the point. Said he on television: "There is a large segment of the population which will interpret a vote against this program as a vote against the concept of having a Negro in the Cabinet...
Despite Lopsided Majorities. In the flush of their victory, Republicans were quick to counterattack. Representative Bob Wilson, chairman of the House Republican Campaign Committee, fired off a telegram to the White House, suggesting that Robert Weaver be named to succeed Abraham Ribicoff, who plans to resign as Health, Education and Welfare Secretary to run for the Senate. Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen gleefully assured a press conference that if Weaver were named to the HEW post, "not a single Republican vote" would be cast against...
...resolution adopted by the House G.O.P. policy committee, were all against the idea as a needless enlargement of the federal bureaucracy. Four Southern Democrats, led by Chairman Howard Smith of Virginia, had a special objection: it was common knowledge that President Kennedy planned to name Robert C. Weaver. 54, the able Negro head of the Housing and Home Finance Agency, as his first Secretary of Urban Affairs and Housing...
...effect, create-any agency in the Executive branch simply by submitting a plan-subject only to veto within 60 days by a majority vote of either the House or the Senate. And to make sure that no body missed the other point, Kennedy confirmed his intention to name Weaver as the new department's head. (Such an announcement, severely noted the New York Times's Arthur Krock, "is rare if not original in cases where a post does not exist...