Word: adame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McCormack's most palpable failure so far this session came in his handling of the Adam Clayton Powell affair. Deeply averse to any break with precedent, he unsuccessfully resisted both the Democratic-caucus move to strip Powell of his committee chairmanship, and the full House action to take away his seat pending a formal investigation. McCormack's stand particularly irritated young, liberal Congressmen, who have been increasingly unhappy about the Speaker's intractably traditionalist position. What McCormack failed to consider was that many a colleague was under heavy pressure from constituents to chastise the flamboyant Negro Congressman...
With no choice but to carry out the House's will, Speaker McCormack last week handpicked a committee of five Democrats and four Republicans to investigate Adam Powell. As chairman, he named Democrat Emanuel Celler, a New Yorker like Powell and chief House sponsor of every major civil rights bill since 1957. Manny Celler had at the time of the Powell floor debate denounced the whole investigation as "a kangaroo court." Now he heads...
Just to be on the safe side, Adam went ahead and formed his own committee-a team of eight civil rights lawyers who, he said, would help him "press this fight...
Lolling at the bar of Washington's Congressional Hotel last week, Adam Clayton Powell looked the very picture of cavalier confidence. Back from a two-month sojourn with his comely receptionist on the Bahamian isle of South Bimini, the Harlem Democrat bragged of his angling prowess. "Are you worried?" asked a reporter. Replied Powell: "Do I look it?" What would he say to the Democratic caucus? "I'm going to tell them," he purred, "to keep the faith, baby...
...While Adam Clayton Powell postured and protested, the first Negro ever popularly elected to the U.S. Senate last week quietly took his seat in Congress. After a courtly reception from his new colleagues, Edward William Brooke III, the junior Senator from Massachusetts, walked outside and saw about 1,000 demonstrators waiting for Powell who was in the House being denied his seat. Cracked Brooke later: "I guess you get more attention when you're going out than when you're coming in." Not so, Senator. At a reception that afternoon, Brooke was overwhelmed...