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...increase, which brings his annual salary to $70,000. When Harry Bates, 83, president emeritus of the Bricklayers, resisted Meany's invitation to retire, Meany decided not to force the ancient out. In keeping with the even-tempered mood of the convention, Meany had kind words for the 89th Congress, even though it pointedly failed to give him the three pieces of legislation that labor wants most: repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act's right-to-work provision, an increase in the federal minimum wage, and a boost in federal-state unemployment benefits...
...such failures prompt the scornful comment that Johnson is a "boxscore President," one who has racked up a fantastically high average in getting his programs through Congress but does not know how to administer them once they have become law. There were rumblings that the second session of the 89th may not be as acquiescent to Lyndon's wishes and whims as this year's Congress...
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...Most of the accomplishments of the 89th Congress [Oct. 29] were warmed-over versions of bills that earlier and less acquiescent sessions had seriously considered and soberly rejected. The 89th Congress did not ask whether a bill were necessary, desirable, constitutional, or even rational, but only whether President Johnson wanted it. Were we to follow the practice of ancient England and apply descriptive names to our legislative sessions, the 89th would go down as "the obsequious Congress...
...bridges, not just to Poland but to the people of Eastern Europe." Then everyone hied themselves over to Hye (pop. 134), an unincorporated crossroads five miles from the ranch. There, Larry O'Brien, the aide who did the most to ram the Great Society legislation through the 89th Congress, was sworn in as Gronouski's successor...