Word: burleson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Texas' Democratic Representative Omar Burleson picked up his ringing telephone. At the other end of the line was the President...
...countered Burleson, many Democrats are disturbed about Govern ment extravagance. Replied Kennedy: "You've already cut more than $4 billion this year." Maybe so, said Burleson, but he had computed that new programs urged by the Administration would cost $17 billion over five years. "That's a figure I never heard," said Kennedy. Within an hour, Kennedy called back. The budget bureau, he reported, did not agree with Burleson. Politely, the two chatted on about taxes and economy in government...
Timely Call. Why was President Kennedy so solicitous toward a relatively unknown Congressman? It happens that Burleson is leader of a loosely organized group of some 50 House Democrats, mainly Southern conservatives, who consider themselves an "economy bloc" -and are less reverently known as the "Boll Weevil Club." With Republicans in near unanimous support of spending limitations offered by House G.O.P. Policy Chairman John Byrnes of Wisconsin, the Boll Weevils clearly held the decisive votes. Kennedy's time on the telephone was well spent...
...week before the House was to vote, Burleson's group had agreed to support Byrnes's proposal that the second stage of the two-year tax cut could not go into effect unless the net national debt was below $303 billion next July 1. Kennedy took to nationwide radio and TV to plug the tax bill, and Republican Congressmen Byrnes and Tom Curtis of Missouri got free and equal air-waves time to answer. The whole issue then and there became more political than economic...
...took off like a rocket," said Burleson later. "He just went whoosh." Snell broke the tape in 3 min. 56.1 sec.-the fastest mile ever run in the U.S. Astonished dockers timed his last 120 yds. in 13.4 sec.-the equivalent, approximately, of a 10-sec. 100-yd. dash. Said Snell: ""I was never in doubt I would...