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This is an erroneous statement. Historically, the Senate's majority leader is not the spokesman for the Administration, but primarily the Senate majority's spokesman and, as such, something of a liaison officer between the President and Senate . . . Mr. Barkley was the first majority leader in the Senate's annals who regarded himself, and was regarded, as the representative of the White House...
...repeatedly called for a break in diplomatic relations with Russia. It is not the Knowland practice to argue with Administration officials and then, if he must, publicly disagree. He takes his stand against the Administration without any apparent feeling for party cohesion. In 1944, when long-suffering Alben Barkley rose in the Senate to castigate Franklin Roosevelt's veto of a tax bill, he resigned as majority leader before he sat down. Knowland is unlikely to follow or even understand this example. He gets very little cooperation out of his fellow Republican Senators, partly because he displays no obligation...
Twelve new faces and two reappearing ones will adorn the Senate of the 84th Congress. His Veepship Alben William Barkley, 76, won back the Kentucky seat he had held for 21 years (1927-48), and Joseph Christopher O'Mahoney, 70, was elected to represent Wyoming, as he had for 18 years until the 1952 Eisenhower landslide forced him to spend two years as a Washington lawyer (one client: Owen Lattimore...
Republicans lost Senate seats in both Nevada and Kentucky. In the former, Democrat Alan Bible, a protege of the late Senator Pat McCarran, defeated the Republican Senator Ernest Brown. And in Kentucky former Vice-President Alben Barkley unseated liberal Republican John Sherman Cooper...
Democratic ex-Vice-President Alben Barkley had won a strong victory over Republican incumbent Senator Cooper...