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...cried, "are obvious. There can be no doubt I have my full share. I suffer from cacoëthes loquendi, a mania or itch for talking, from vanity and morbidity, and, as is obvious to everyone who knows me, an inborn, an inveterate flair for histrionics." Democrat Henry Fountain Ashurst was off on one of the orations that were the delight of the Senate from...
...Senators in the movie adaptation of Advise and Consent, Otto Preminger tapped a film freshman whom the state of Arizona cast in the same role from 1912 to 1941: Democrat Henry Fountain Ashurst, 87. No one, however, could fairly accuse Preminger of typecasting. "Five-Syllable Henry" Ashurst, now living in retirement in Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel, is admittedly the very model of an oldtime, wing-collared Senator. But in the Preminger movie, he will play a reticent, somnolent solon from Arkansas-a formidable frustration to a man who once described himself as a "veritable peripatetic bifurcated volcano...
...joyously accept the verdict of my party ... I shall possibly be enjoying the ecstasy of the starry stillness of an Arizona desert night," said Henry Fountain Ashurst, "or the scarlet glories of her blooming cactus, the petrified forest which leafed through its green millenniums, and put on immortality 7,000 years ago." That was in 1940 when Orator Ashurst, defeated for reelection, was delivering his swan song in the Senate. Last week, 14 years later, Ashurst, lively and loquacious as ever at 79, was still living in Washington. Widower Ashurst is a perennially popular extra man at the parties...
Loafers & Lobbyists. Last week there were more than 100 former Senators and Representatives, who, like Ashurst, were still around Washington. Some were in other branches of the Government; a few were making a lot more money than they ever made as Senators; some were just loafing and dreaming...
...votes they can deliver . . . Labor's lobby is today the most effective in the capital." Politicians will sometimes "go along with policies they don't believe in personally for votes, but almost never for any other kind of gain." George thought Arizona's ex-Senator Henry Ashurst, one of Congress' greatest orators, summed it up. After making an impressive fight for a cause he sincerely believed in, Ashurst abruptly switched. Said a colleague: "Thank God, Henry, you have seen the light." Said Ashurst: "Oh, no ... I felt the heat." Says George: "People who think the mighty...