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...Lunched with new members of the Senate and spent most of the time talking to Kentucky's Alben Barkley about the best varieties of pasture grass; lunched with new members of the House and accepted from Georgia's Iris Blitch (once named the "Queen Bee" of the Georgia legislature because of her work for beekeepers) a gift of two quarts of Georgia honey...
...hand. In the final stages, the bill still contained a provision for a tax-free special-expense account of $1,250 and an allowance for five extra round trips home every year. Just as the Senate was about to rush the bill through, Kentucky's Democratic Senator Alben Barkley rose to make his first speech since he returned to the Senate this year. In five minutes, Barkley made his point clear: These "petty, extraneous" provisions were so special that they would be resented by the folks back home. Having high respect for the Veep's political sagacity...
...into the cramped offices of the Democratic state headquarters, on the second floor of Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel. Campaign photographs of Averell Harriman were plastered everywhere. A picture of Harry Truman, in pastel shades, managed to make the wall of the main reception room. Franklin Roosevelt (senior) and Alben W. Barkley were relegated to the hall. Adlai Stevenson was stuck away in another room...
Again quoting your story, "In 1944, long-suffering Alben Barkley rose in the Senate to castigate Franklin Roosevelt's veto of the tax bill. He resigned as majority leader before he sat down. Knowland is unlikely to follow or even understand this example." The afternoon the veto reached the Senate, my brother, the late Senator Bennett Champ Clark, and his deskmate and close friend, Senator Byrd, called upon Senator Barkley . . . When Senator Barkley arose in the Senate to make the speech that ended with his resignation, he had already been assured by Senators Byrd and Clark that they...
...Upon Senator Taft's death he bluntly announced that he was a candidate for the leadership against all comers. Despite the thought that the Administration lacked enthusiasm for him, Senator Knowland was elected by his colleagues. And he has performed his duties, not following in the footsteps of Alben Barkley, but in the tradition of the Senate. Moreover, it is ex tremely doubtful that the Administration could defeat him if it tried...