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...agreement that the key to quick progress lay in the election of as many blacks as possible to political office-that is, access to political power. The results of that thrust have already begun to show. The House of Representatives now has twelve black members v. nine in the 91st Congress, still a tiny number, but not negligible; the twelve boycotted the President's State of the Union message to dramatize their unhappiness at Richard Nixon's refusal to meet with them. For the first time in this century, black representatives sit under the Confederate flags...
Stealing Furniture. Dole's appetite for combat was obvious in the 91st Congress, where he was appalled to see how few Republicans seemed willing to challenge the Democratic majority. Sometimes none were even on the floor. "My God," he recalls, "the Democrats could steal the furniture." So Dole, whose committee duties occupied little of his time, made it a point to be on hand to defend the Administration. That loyalty did not go unnoticed at the White House. A conservative on most issues, Dole vigorously assailed critics of Nixon's Viet Nam policies, defended the ABM and, although...
Wait Till Next Year. Despite the frenetic peregrinations of the last days of the 91st Congress, Administration operatives found the turn of the year a time for self-examination. President Nixon helicoptered to Bethesda Naval Hospital for his annual physical checkup; his doctors found him to be in "excellent health," even to have "a young man's blood pressure." His political standing seemed less clear. At the end of 1970 the Nixon men, reported TIME White House Correspondent Simmons Fentress, were "still a bit defensive, like ballplayers who can only tell the fans to wait until next year." Nixon...
SLUGGISH, vacillating and quarrelsome throughout its two years of life, the 91st Congress could not even muster the means to die gracefully. It did not so much expire as commit suicide, victim of its ineffectual procedures, disagreement over priorities and inter-chamber acrimonies...
Failure to Perform. The dominant quality of the 91st Congress thus was its negativism, which can, of course, be a valuable legislative contribution...