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Candy Coating. Across the Senate aisle from Knowland sat a man who shrewdly sensed the fence sitters' quandary. And Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson, who had staked out a role for himself as compromiser, set about trying to get passed the kind of jury-trial amendment that Dick Russell...
Dick Russell did not direct the tactics that broke the bill. That was the work of Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson, who was more interested in holding together a Democratic Party than in preserving the extreme rights of the Deep South. But Rearguard Commander Russell chose the intellectual battlefield, laid...
¶Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson took a hard look at this session's Senate accomplishments, found that "by the standard of achievement, I think my colleagues on both sides of the aisle are entitled to congratulations." Passed, reported Texan Johnson, were "26 more important bills," including the...
The Lords ordainers all gave most adequate performances. Especially impressive were Thayer David as Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, and Robert Baines, as the treacherous Roger Mortimer.
Actually, neither Morse nor Talmadge nor any of their crew had a wisp of a chance of defeating the bill, which came out of Theodore Francis Green's Foreign Relations Committee with heavy bipartisan backing. The committee refused to authorize only $227 million of the $3.8 billion appropriation sought...