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...89th Congress has churned out Great Society legislation so efficiently this year that it has sometimes seemed like a precision-tooled machine. But last week the House put on a display of parliamentary absurdity and just plain orneriness that reminded everyone that Congress is, after all, an assemblage of peccable...
Education, as Lyndon Johnson has repeatedly observed, is the door to the Great Society, and the 89th Congress has been eager to unbolt it. The $1.3 billion Elementary and Secondary Education Act passed just before the Easter recess, stirred great interest among constituents back home, and Congressmen have been even more enthusiastic about the Administration's companion bill, which authorizes new subsidies for colleges and universities. By the time it reached the House floor last week, Adam Clayton Powell's Education and Labor Committee had more than dou bled the Administration's original request for $260 million...
With an overwhelming Democratic majority in both houses, with Republicans confining their criticism more to methods than to goals, with a marked absence of the legislature's traditional hostility to the White House, the 89th Congress-under Lyndon Johnson's prodding-has compiled a truly astonishing record of accomplishment...
Plucked Arm. Last year Gardner became chairman of Johnson's special task force on education which, the President reported last week, "helped to plant the seed bed of the education harvest that has been produced by the 89th Congress." Recommendations by the task force formed the basis for key sections of Johnson's $1.3 billion federal-aid-to-education law passed this year. A month ago, an aide strongly recommended Gardner to Johnson as a replacement for Celebrezze-and Gardner started undergoing the well-known Lyndon look-over...
...party caucus just before the opening of the 89th Congress, Ohio's veteran Representative Mike Kirwan had some words of wisdom for freshman Democratic Congressmen. "Just follow the leader," said Kirwan, "and use your franking privilege. It's free...