Word: barkleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alben Barkley, with a stuffy nose and a racking cough, presided over the Senate in the old Supreme Court chamber* where there is barely room to swing a cat. Occasionally, he tapped for order with the tiny blob of ivory that serves as his gavel...
Other statements made during the Prime Minister's visit by President Truman, Vice-President Barkley, Walter Lippmann '10, and George Kennan, the State Department official, are included in the book...
...from Kentucky. When someone would shout: "Where's the wife?" the Veep would explain that Mrs. Barkley hadn't come along this trip, but he hoped to bring her soon "and I know you will fall in love with her the way I did-but I hope the result won't be the same." Every time he was offered the customary glass of water at a speaker's rostrum, he would spurn it, remarking: "I don't drink water, I'm a Kentuckian." He even had a line for school youngsters he encountered...
...Veep's voice sometimes seemed to falter when it came to calling off the names of local candidates. He usually had a list in his hand, and read from it. In California, where Jimmy Roosevelt is running uphill against popular Republican Governor Earl Warren, Barkley acknowledged his "great respect" for Warren and said that he did not intend to attack him. The best he could do for Jimmy was to call attention to his background "and the fact that he was overwhelmingly nominated as the candidate of his party...
Woman for the Senate. Even in the California Senate race, where 49-year-old Democratic Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas was finding it hard going (see above), Barkley didn't seem very helpful. To Republican charges that she had left a Communist-line voting record in the House, he replied: "I'm not familiar with all of Mrs. Douglas' votes. I'm quite sure [she] voted her conscientious convictions. The mere fact that she voted the same as Marcantonio I don't regard as of any significance." Then, somewhat confusingly, he added: "The Senate could stand...