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Editor's Not: Ii it tru
that President Kennedy
h been plagued by weak
party leadership in getting
his New Frontier program
through Congress? The
Chief of the UPI staff in
the House of Representa
tives answers this and kin
dred questions in the fol
lowing exclusive dispatch.
By FRANK ELEAZER
United Press International
Washington - fllPP - Demo
cratic Congressional leaders,
battered by adverse publici
ty about their legislative per
formance this year, plead
guilty to nothing much worse
than sorry public relations.
It appears they have indeed
blown the publicity bit. But
(with some weeks to go and
some big issues still to be set
tled) the record at adjourn
ment could show they have
not done at all bad with man
agement of a difficult second
session of the 87th Congress.
It is true Congress has not
bought a whole lot of what
President Kennedy wanted to
sell. It is a fact that admin
istration forces took a drub
bing on the President's farm
bill. It Is no Joke that the
government for a while look
ed like it might run out of
money because two octogen
arian Democratic committee
chairmen could not agree
where to meet or who would
sit at the head of the con
ference table.
State of Inaction
And it is an embarrassing
fact of Congressional life that
a few strong-minded members
again have demonstrated how
easy it is to talk the Senate
into a state of temporary, total
inaction.
Some people seem to con
clude that this all adds up to
undeclared war between the
White House and Congress;
that the government how func
tions by stalemate; and that
this kind of thing never hap
pened before, or at least not
nearly so bad.
All of which is baloney.
And some top Congressional
Democrats now are pretty un
happy about their failure to
say so in a way to be heard
and believed.
No Congress ever rubber
stamps presidential requests.
Presidents always ask for
more than they can get. Some
times as in the case of
Kennedy's Medicare bill
they ask it knowing very well
they can't get it and count
ing their loss for use as an
issue next time at the polls.
Other Presidents
Harry Truman plastered
the Capitol with , Fair Deal
Bills predestined for nowhere.
Dwight D. Eisenhower want
ed school aid. Then as now,
"Congress didn't."
Of course this still is Ken
nedy's first Congress, and he
was elected on a promise to
get America "moving again,"
and any reluctance by Demo
cratic lawmakers to help him
make good on that promise is
fair game for Republican
taunts.
Kennedy admittedly Is not
overjoyed at the overall Con-
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gressional performance so far.
Last year, his first in the
White House, he got more re
sults sooni-s. This was natural.
Also, he put off until this
year some of the hard ones.
Some people claim things
would have gone better this
year had the late great Speak
er Sam Rayburn still been
around. They say Rayburn and
former Senate Leader Lyn
don B. Johnson, now mere
ly the Senate's presiding of
ficer as Vice President, held
a closer rein on Congress
than Speaker John W. McCor
mack and Senate Leader Mike
Mansfield. This is true, es
pecially as to Johnson.
It is possibly true also thai
Rayburn would not have tol
erated this year's long money
deadlock in a protocol strug
gle between chairmen of
House and Senate Appropri
ations committees. It is even
possible that Johnson would
have found a way to shut up
the Telstar communications
bill filibuster before it made
the Senate begin to look sil
ly.
Farm Bill
Seme observers claim Ray
burn would not have let Ken
nedy's farm bill go down the
drain by a handful of voles in
the House. Maybe so, maybe
not. But farm bills have had
a way of getting licked in
the House, with or without
Mr. Sam on the rostrum.
Nobody could have steered
through the House a foreign
trade bill any more pleasing
to Kennedy that the one Mc
Cormack pushed, through and
sent to the Senate. The foreign
aid authorization Congress
sent to the White House look
ed amazingly like what the
White House requested.
In between the publicized
bouts on the big ones, the lit
tle ones have been rolling
through by -the score, just as
always. The Congressional
Record recently tallied up 163
new public laws enacted this
year, not counting private re
lief bills.
Most of them were routine,
but one man's routine bill,
given the proper public re
lations buildup, can be an-
other s big issue. In some
luuietcr dav. even the House's
mnpnl onstin-f. Inufnrl nminl
' pay for equal work done by
I women might have been pass
ed off as a legislative achieve-Iment.
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CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS - Democratic Congressional
leaders, (above) battered by adverse publicity about their
legislative performance this year, plead guilty to nothing
much worse than sorry public relations. Here House Speaker
John W. McCormack (D-Mass., left) and Senate Majority
Leader Mike Mansfield (D-Mont., right) meet the press along
with Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. By contrast with
Republican House Leader Charles Halleck (R-Ind., left, be
low) and Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen (R-Ill.), party
leaders in their respective houses of Congress never seem to
be caught without somthing handy to say about lack of action
in Congress, while Democrats regularly walk out to face the
press with nothing succint to report. (UPI)
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lale New Dealer Harry Hop
kins an envious green.
Educational TV
It has approved federal
grants totalling $50 million
to help start educational TV
stations. It has increased fed
eral payment for relief of
the blind, disabled and aged.
It has expanded the Presi
dent's Peace Corps. U has
committed the country to
sending a man to the moon, I
if possible before Russia does i
it. I
Naturally it is not up to Re- j
publican leaders to explain
all this to the voters. Their
job is to point out Democratic i
shortcomings, and nobody has I
accused Rep. Charles A. 1 1 ; 1 -:
leek and Sen. Everett M. j
Dirksen of falling down on !
the job. '
The Ev and Charlie show is j
possibly a little less known j
on TV than the Huntley- !
Rrinkley Report. Despite the ;
fact that Ev and Charlie speak 1
for a party that controls nei-
ther White House nor Con-1
Kress, their weekly press con
ferences - recorded for la'er
broadcast get better air-!
ing than the White House
meetings of McCormack and
Mansfield with President Ken
nedy. One big reason is that Ev
and Charlie do their public
relat ions homework. MeCor-
mack and Mansfield frequent- i
ly don't. '
Something Handy
The two Republican lead
i ers would as soon be caught
at n Democratic fund raisine
rally as walk into the TV ;
floodlights without a tittle
something handy to say about
the lack of action in Congress ,
and how it would be better
all around if the lawmakers
closed up shop and w e n t
; home.
! Hy contrast, MK'ormaek
and Mansfield, after their :
Tuesday breakfasts with K.-n-!
nedy. regularly walk out lo
: fare the press with not bin-.
; succinct to report. Tins does
i not mean they have devoted
the breakfast hour solely 1o
hot biscuits and sausage. II
does mean they have not
packaged their thoughts to
make headlines or fit the
evening news slots on TV.
McCormack holds a daily
press conference just before
the House meets at noon. Fol
lowing the example of the
late Speaker Rayburn he puts
most of his remarks off me
record.
The lesser Democratic
lights, Reps. Carl Albert and
Hale Boggs and Sen. Hubert
Humphrey, are better suited
by nature, age and back
ground for this publicity
struggle than McCormack and
Mansfield. However, they are
part of the team, not its co
captains. "I don't know what we can
do about it," said one highly
placed Democrat who con
ceded the problem. "I don't
even know whether we ought
to do anything. We Democrats
never have been a match for
Republicans at the P.R.
game. Rut you might conclude
from the Congressional elec
tion results for the past 30
yea rs that in the end we
aren't usually hurt too much
by this at the polls."
FAMILY
COUNCIL
Adele F. - I want to nip our
remodeling job right now and
go no further.
Newton F. I admit it's
dragging on, but it will be
worth the mess.
Adele F. - I know Newt
waited a long time to have
our basement remodeled and
I was as happy as he when
work was begun in June. We
knew the children would be
away at camp, we wouldn't be
doing any entertaining, and
we'd be away from the house j
ourselves for part of the time. !
But things have dragged on
and the work is barely begun.
Meanwhile the pathways and
doorways are piled up with
brick, pipes, wire and other
mess. There's a big hole in
one wall of the house which
the inspector says can't be
closed up until the electrical I
work has been okayed. And
the kids are back, school's
about to start, with no end of
this confusion in view.
If Newt and the builder
can't hurry things and give
me a definite date for finish
ing, I'm in favor of patching
things back and dropping the
whole change.
-
Newton F. - Adele should
realize that a big renovation
like this doesn't proceed ex
actly on schedule like a rail
road train. We started off fine.
We got the floor leveled off
and the walls knocked down.
But then it was one delay
after another - all for good
reasons. The painter's brother
died, the plumber couldn't get
a part. Deliveries of lumber
were held up by a local strike.
Certain key mechanics were
on vacation. In fact, our in
sulation can't be installed for
another month for that rea
son. Sometimes I feel as hope
less as Adele does about this
whole undertaking. Here win
ter is around the corner and
what if we still have that gap
ing hole in our wall? The set
backs are unbelievable and
discouraging. But I think the
worst part is behind us. Now
that our plans are approved
and we have the permit and
all, there's no turning back.
...
The Council: Anybody who
sits around waiting for the
perfect time to do a complex
job will just sit around wait
ing. "Carpe diem," said Hor
ace, the poet. "Seize the day
reasoning was their confi
dence that things would pro
rather than trust tomorrow."
So Newton and Adele settled
upon June as the season most
likely to succeed in seeing
them through a remodeling
project which they'd dreamed
of and, no doubt, delayed for
years and years.
The only fallacy in their
ceed evenly. They forgot that
there were not only mechani
cal factors to be checked off,
but also human ones - and
there's no predicting those. So
the experienced home reno
vator knows that when an in
stallation comes off exactly on
schedule, it's both an excep
tion and a miracle.
Adele is upset because her
best-laid plans - to have the
mess cleared away before
fall-have "gang agley." Her
error was to have placed too
much faith in those plans,
which are better left fluid and
flexible. No matter when the
first axe descended, there'd
have been delays. While other
seasons might mean faster de
liveries and more available
hands, they also bring snow
and colds and other hitches in
the smooth flow of construe--,
tion.
I Evidently patience must b -
the watchword around the F.
home, gaping hole and all. It
this couple had been carefully
briefed on the "whole story"
of what remodeling entails,
I they might have abandoned
i the iiihnl tHpa and moved. Of
else been better prepared for
this will-it-never-end stage.
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