Hours after the Democratic congressional landslide rumbled down last November, nimble Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson proposed to build upon it "a bold housing program" suitable to the big-spending tastes of his party's enlarged liberal wing. He gave it top priority when the 86th Congress convened in January, threw aside the President's modest request for a six-year, $1.6 billion program, hammered a $2.6 billion plan through the Senate by early February. Then Dwight Eisenhower's budget battle began to take hold, and the companion House bill, delayed until mid-May, was cut to $2.1 billion. Most of the House cuts were kept...
THE PRESIDENCY: Remodeled Housing
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