Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...break challenge lay just ahead. Old Guard Republicans and Southern Democrats alike were waiting with sharpened knives for the $3.8 billion foreign aid program. Whether the President's foreign aid speech this week would dull these knives and blunt the attack was the next big question. On the answer hung nothing less than the political prestige-and world stature-of Dwight D. Eisenhower...
...Answer in Hand. Johnson's charms, his maneuvering ability and his genius for spotting political trends have given him a total command of the Senate matched by few majority leaders in history. He has long posed as the President's best friend in the Senate. But last week, with Ike's popularity at its lowest, Lyndon Johnson took on the President...
...until recently a Teamster employee, who was picked up in Ellensburg, Wash, by a U.S. marshal after he had dodged the committee's subpoena servers for two months. Gessert, a cousin of Beck's wife Dorothy, took the Fifth Amendment 71 times in 21 minutes, refused to answer even when McClellan asked if he knew his counsel. Said McClellan: "I just wanted to see how ridiculous and how frivolous these things can get when people find themselves in a situation such...
Beck: I decline to answer that under the Fifth Amendment...
That may have been a turning point in other ways. McClellan had always drawn within himself to answer problems. As if to spare himself future pain, he turned away from his children. They used to say of him that he never seemed to care about them until they were dead. Now there is a drawing-together. Eula's daughter Doris, whose whole life has been a fight to win her father's affection ("There's no one in the world I'd rather see walk in the door than my dad, because I just love...