New Motto Should Be Get Elected and See the World
Washington reports a roll call of Congressmen traveling abroad at taxpayers expense. Veteran Mike Kirwan of Youngstown Ohio, 78, is praised for junketing, having visited the South Sea Islands and Samoa on an inspection trip while snow swirls over Youngstown and automation looms over steel workers.
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Mike Kirwan
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South Sea Islands
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Junkets and ads color Johnson era politics in 1964
A fragmentary study of congressional trips abroad highlights Rep. Jonas and Kirwan on a joint South Seas junket, Passman and Rhodes touring Asia to review aid programs, and Whitten leading a Latin America mission. The piece notes Johnson’s Medicare push and a Texas anti-Goldwater ad controversy, alongside college enrollment figures.
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Otto
Latin America
House Appropriations ' Committee
U. S. Information Agency
State Department
Jamie L. Whitten
Mississippi
House Appropriations
Dick Russell
Georgia
Russell
Whitten
Southeastern
Latin” América
Robert Michel
Ill
Bifonl Cederberg
Mich
Glenard ‘Lipscomb
Calif
John Slack
West Virginia
John J. Flynt, Jr
D-Ga
Far East
Japan
Korea
Formosa
Hong Kong
Manila
George Mahon
Texas
House Appropriations Committee
Congress
American Medical Association
Krent
Johnson
Dallas Morning News
Goldwater
Lyndon Johnson
Robert Humphrey
Barry Goldwater
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