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RELATIONS WITH CONGRESS
Q.
Mr. President: Can you give us your overall view of the
performance of the Congress of the United States which ended
yesterday?
A.
Tomorrow, I intend to deliver a brief statement on that
specific subject. Overall, I have to say that this was the per -
formance of a mediocre Congress in a time that called for a
Great Congress. Perhaps the Ninety-Second will fill that need.
You know - - if you watched the performance of the United States
Senate in December of 1970, you will perhaps understand better
why this Administration campaigned so vigorously in November
of 1970. The record of the House of Representatives will stand
far better scrutiny than that of the Senate in the Ninety-First.
And it is not only by the nation's standards, demanding action;
nor by the Administration standard of requiring action upon our
mos most basic legislative proposals - - this Senate, I think, failed by
its own standards; and many of the best men in that body will, in
private and in candor, admit that fact. America is not well served
when her legislative arm, especially when the Greatest Deliber- -
ative Body on earth, the U.S. Senate, makes the sort of public
spectacle of ineptitude and paralysis that we witnessed in the last
two weeks of the year just ended.
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