Word: backrooms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their campaign money-into cold storage, and wait too. "His followers woo him," says a top Utah politician. "He doesn't woo his followers. You can't say that about any of the others." This complicates the task of the active candidates both in primaries and in backroom maneuvering, and increases the possibility of a stalemated convention. Stevenson could easily end the strain by endorsing another candidate, but he has not, and in that state of affairs his followers see hope and unspoken promise...
...Irritation. But behind the Soviet smiles, irritation was rising. The British diplomats and political backroom experts who had urged Macmillan to go to Moscow had done so on the basis of a fatally naive and condescending assumption. Sublimely convinced that no diplomats in the world are as smooth as British diplomats, Macmillan's advisers seriously thought that Khrushchev might somehow be persuaded, three months before a showdown date he himself had set, to take the urgency out of a crisis Khrushchev had deliberately provoked to try the free world's nerve...
...backroom experts also forgot that Khrushchev had no urge to enhance Macmillan's prestige with the British electorate; to the Russians, Britain's Socialists, with their distrust of the U.S. and their more experimental approach to the cold war, have more appeal than the Tories. Khrushchev's main interest in the Macmillan visit, obvious except to Whitehall, lay in his hope that it would uncover a split between the U.S. and British governments over Berlin. When he found Macmillan consistently taking the line that the West was unshakably united in the determination to hold its position...
...thing about me, that is, that the one thing I want to do is my job. Some are always writing that I'm a back-room operator. They say I'm sensitive. How would you like your little daughter to read that you are a 'backroom operator,' a 'wirepuller' or a 'clever man'?" Again and again comes the complaint: "People don't understand ..." But his wife Lady Bird* does. Says she: "He is the most complicated, yet the simplest of men, and sometimes a really sad fellow...
...helped bring about integration in the parks, playgrounds, theaters and other public places of the nation's capital. A Justice Department brief helped persuade the Interstate Commerce Commission to outlaw segregation on interstate trains and buses. Brownell invited Southern transportation-company heads to Washington for behind-the-scenes (backroom) conferences about transit segregation in their cities. Result: more than 20 Southern communities have killed Jim Crow without fuss or fanfare...