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...climax was a full-dress reception at the French Embassy. Official and social Washington lined up all the way through the paneled reception room, down the garden steps and out on the driveway. While the imported champagne flowed, Senator Alben Barkley presented the General with a bottle of bourbon...
Congress, which had hoped and planned for a lazy, two-months' loaf, will have just about half that. With dozens of questions begging for answers, Harry Truman decided to talk things over with Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley. The decision: Congress will return on Sept. 4, instead...
...thirds majority vote of the Senate, or by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress? The point was the nub of opposition strategy. If a two-thirds Senate vote were required, then the opposition might have a later chance. The point made odd allies. Administration men, such as Alben Barkley and Tom Connally, found themselves on the two-thirds side with Burt Wheeler...
...Senators rose in a body and cheered him, as they had Tom Connally. They crossed the aisles and put their arms around the broad shoulders of the two delegates, wishing them well. Majority Leader Alben Barkley, moved by the demonstration, hastily called for adjournment, observing that any other business would be an anticlimax...
...issue the House had handed it on Feb. 1. Its Military Affairs Committee had twisted & turned as though it were all a nightmare, had voted weak bills, stronger bills, had taken out penalties, had put them back in. The Senate itself had done more of the same. Rumbled Alben Barkley, majority leader: "Let us get action ... let us vote on something. ... I think we have spent a great deal of time messing around." Maine's Wallace H. White Jr., minority leader, agreed...