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...broad enough to include the eastern internationalists in the G.O.P (generally more interested in Europe than Asia), such forthright Republicans as California's Bill Knowland (who favors the decisive course in both Asia and Europe) and such high & dry isolationists as Indiana's Homer Capehart and Illinois' Everett Dirksen (who frequently criticize U.S. involvement in either Korea or Europe), some changes had to be made fast. Out from Martin's office went the new word: forget impeachment talk for the time being, stop talking about the Formosa question, and concentrate on a demand that MacArthur come...
...resign at once. "You just resign and say the committee crucified you," Rowe told him. "I think that will straighten out the whole matter." To be helpful, Rowe even dictated the letter for him, and left it on his desk for signature. Demanded Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart: "In other words, he wanted to make you the fall guy?" Said Dunham sadly: "I think that I was to be the goat...
...exactly expressed my sentiments," said Nebraska's Kenneth Wherry, G.O.P. floor leader in the Senate. "I agree with many of the general principles he states," said Ohio's Bob Taft, now a prime molder of G.O.P. foreign policy in the Senate. Indiana's 100% Isolationist Homer Capehart rejoiced: "I agree with Mr. Hoover 100%." "The people are with him," proclaimed Colonel McCormick's Chicago Tribune. (Its enthusiasm barely exceeded that of the Communist Party's Daily Worker, which appreciatively turned over its big headline type to Hoover's speech...
...Eugene Millikin, jovial, conservative G.O.P. stalwart, showed surprising strength in defeating Fair Dealer John Carroll in Colorado. ¶ Bourke Hickenlooper of Iowa, Alexander Wiley of Wisconsin and Homer Capehart of Indiana, three conservative Midwest Republicans, beat their Fair Deal opponents. Three members of the G.O.P.'s progressive wing, Oregon's Wayne Morse, New Hampshire's Charles Tobey and Vermont's George Aiken, also won handily...
...President . . ." Many readers will disagree with Merry-Go-Round's political judgments and be bored with its unending succession of paste-up biographical sketches. But few will fail to enjoy its deadpan vignettes of Washington life. In one of these, a brief speech by Senator Homer Capehart, the occasional mystery and sadness of representative government are epitomized...