Word: contention
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dirksen observes that Congress lacks not only White House guidance but a sense of popular direction. "A lot of people," says he, "don't seem to know whether they want anything from Congress right now or not." Until they find out, Republicans are generally content to wait on the President, while many Democrats are satisfied to defend existing domestic programs...
...damage caused by the breakaway activities of Peking to the common cause of Communists cannot be underestimated." Said he: "The practical activities of Peking in the international arena more and more convince us of the fact that China has actually broken with proletarian internationalism and lost its class Socialist content." It sounded as if the Soviets had decided after all to press on with their original plans to excommunicate the Chinese from the movement. But such a move was certain to lead in the conference to heated debates and perhaps even walkouts and further divisions within world Communism...
...Department approved a controversial "activist" section of Soc Rel 149. The department said that Peace and Freedom Party members could lead a section on "Community Organizing: The Fight For Rent Control in Cambridge" as long as the section's emphasis was on "intellectual content" and the section did not become a tool of the rent-control movement...
October 9: Peace came to two lingering problem areas. The CEP gave final approval to Sec Rel 148, while still noting that it had reservations about the course's overt political content...
...Russia is too far away from us. We are satisfied with demolishing autocracy in Germany and sit back content to see it overrun the Slavic countries and the Orient if it chooses...