Word: capehart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chagrin, Majority Leader Johnson had scooped up such Democratic moderates as Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy, Ohio's Frank Lausche, Rhode Island's John Pastore, Washington's "Scoop" Jackson and Warren Magnuson, such Republicans as Maine's Margaret Chase Smith, Indiana's Homer Capehart, and West Virginia's Chappie Revercomb...
...Homer Capehart finally got the floor: "After making the statement which the Senator has just made ... I should think he would be utterly ashamed of himself, being over 21 years of age, and a capable man who has made a great success in business-I do not know how many millions-to say publicly, in the presence of schoolchildren and others in the galleries, that the President of the U.S. has no brains...
Next day, Homer Capehart, still smarting under Kerr's angry reply to "the midget" from Indiana, discovered that the Oklahoman had prudently revised the Congressional Record transcript to read that Ike had no "fiscal brains." That, said Capehart, shows exactly what "kind of gentleman" Bob Kerr is. Then Capehart did a doubletake on another Kerr line in the Congressional Record from the previous day's debate. Kerr: "I do not say that the President has no brains at all. I reserve that broad and sweeping accusation for some of my cherished colleagues in this body...
...Asked Capehart: "Who are these cherished colleagues? Am I one of them?" For answer, Kerr, deadpan, asked permission to revise his earlier statement: "I desire to have the word 'some' changed to the word 'one,' and . . . the word 'colleagues' changed to ... 'colleague.' " Undaunted, Homer Capehart unfurled the flag: "I would rather be a friend of the President of the United States without any brains than to be a friend of the Senator from Oklahoma with brains...
...attacking Ike on monetary policy, Bob Kerr was just being Bob Kerr. But the impunity with which he made the attack-Homer Capehart alone accused him of bad taste rather than inaccuracy-highlighted a new congressional attitude toward Dwight Eisenhower. On strictly domestic issues-the budget, civil rights, etc.-the President has lost, or has forsworn, his political leverage despite his personal popularity on and off Capitol Hill. Congress' discovery: six months through his second term, he need no longer be feared, can often be ignored, occasionally flouted without fear of political reprisal...