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Uriah Heep. Despite the ego-building assignments, there were inevitably frustrations and uncertainties. For the first session of the 89th Congress-the better part of 1965-Johnson wanted Humphrey to spend much of his time at the Capitol doing convoy duty on the passage of Great Society legislation. He had vast knowledge of the Senate and the issues, and excellent relations with many members of Congress. Yet Humphrey found, as Johnson had as Vice President, that his influence had largely evaporated. "I am in the club," as he put it, "but no longer a member." He had little to offer...
...Meany's blast brought the smoldering feud between labor and the Democratic Party close to open warfare. Already irked by the Administration's tepid efforts to win repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act's Section 14(b), labor's No. 1 legislative goal for the 89th Congress, union tempers were raised to boiling point last week by the House's failure to act on another measure eagerly sought by the unions. Stalled in committee was a bill that would over turn a 1951 U.S. Supreme Court decision prohibiting a union from picketing one employer...
When Delaware's Republican Senator John J. Williams first saw the profusion of ads in the Democratic Party's glossy, 178-page paean to the 89th Congress entitled Toward an Age of Greatness, his own reaction was that the Republic was headed toward an age of "political blackmail." Rising on the Senate floor to protest the Democrats' $1,000,000 bonanza, Williams - nicknamed "Whispering Willie" because of his barely audible speaking voice - protested...
...President Johnson made it clear that it was time to invoke federal ac tion. "Our task is to put the highest concerns of our people at the center of urban growth and activity," he told Congress. "For this is truly the time of decision for the American city." The 89th Congress approved Johnson's request for a new federal agency, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, to give Cabinet representation for the first time to the 130 million metropolitan Americans. The President appointed Robert Clifton Weaver, a Negro, as HUD's first Secretary last January, unpredictably tapping...
Various theoretical arguments can be raised against this tendency, but practical considerations are more to the point. In an era when the pace of social as well as technological change seems to be accelerating at a geometrical rate, the Congress tends to grind exceeding slow. The hyperactive 89th Congress is atypical; on Capitol Hill it is normally easier to obstruct than to enact. To appreciate how Congress usually functions, we need only go back to the first session of the 88th Congress in 1963. Then the House was wallowing in inaction, ignoring the Administration's advice and paying heed...