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...Hats off to Senator Dirksen and his stand on repeal of Section 14(b) [Oct. 1]. My disgust with the 89th Congress and its faceless mass of yes men has been somewhat alleviated by Dirksen's refusal to knuckle under to the autocracy of the Johnson Administration. Compulsory unionism is akin to compulsory Communism, and no American should stand...
...about as soigné as Margaret Rutherford, even subjugated his mutinous curls, donned a neatly pressed blue suit, and had a shoeshine in honor of the occasion. An occasion it certainly was, presaging as it did one of the few defeats dealt Lyndon Johnson by the prodigiously productive 89th Congress...
...perfume penetrated to the farthest corners of the House-but with none of the advertised effects on the male of the species. For despite earlier assurances that the members would be allowed to quit in time to take their wives to Lyndon Johnson's Salute to the 89th Congress, their host had other plans for the House. From 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue on the evening of the party came word that the Representatives should stay in session until they had passed the Administration's highway-beautification bill. After all Lady Bird had set her heart...
What Rusk and other Administration officials could not foresee was that Lyndon Johnson's mighty efforts to end the capital's colonial status would come to naught. In one of the rare and least expected setbacks dealt him by the docile 89th Congress, the House last week killed Johnson's bill to give the District of Columbia the right to elect its own public officials and run its own affairs-a privilege last enjoyed in the federal city...
...89th Congress has been so willing to give Lyndon Johnson what he wants that just about everyone figured that it would zip right through its agenda and be ready to go home in September. Not everyone is willing to go along quite so easily, however, particularly when it comes to a matter of principle. Just such a matter now threatens to hold congressional adjournment up indefinitely. It is the repeal of section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley Law, the famous right-to-work clause. This week the bill, already passed by the House, is scheduled to come...