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...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...
Words: $3,000,000. The 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...
Nearing the end of its herculean first session, the 89th Congress has firmly set in place the foundations of the Great Society. It has adopted legislation that will affect nearly all Americans, but most immediately the poor, the elderly, the undereducated, those who are conspicuously deprived of political representation and economic opportunity. While thus proving itself the most liberal Congress in decades, the 89th has notably refused to act in one area that might have been expected to fit its pattern: it has not approved a single bill that would exclusively benefit organized labor...
Summoning in a four-man press pool, Johnson chatted about the amazing productivity of the 89th Congress. The session, he said, reminded him of "an old song that we used to sing in the hills of Texas, 'Keep on doing what you're doing to me, because I like what you're doing to me!'" He admitted that he had been disappointed a few times, but allowed: "You never get everything you want." On the other hand, he could not resist adding, "If Hubert and I were up there representing the House and the Senate...
...place Hogan's Heroes and No. 8, Green Acres. CBS, further more, is striking fastest in cutting its losses: Slavery's People (92nd of 98 in the ratings) will die in November, Rawhide (84th) in January, and the literate but limited-appeal Trials of O'Brien 89th) is being readied for euthanasia...