Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President, like Dwight Eisenhower, prefers to learn what the press and the networks are saying from a news summary that his staff will prepare for him every morning. The large red-mahogany desk that Nixon had used as Vice President was trundled over from the Capitol. Ornately carved in front, it had been the White House desk of William McKinley and Woodrow Wilson...
...White House resident must stamp his signature on the times immediately or risk losing forever the chance to do so. Nixon construes his circumstances and opportunities differently?and with cause. He wants what one adviser calls "studious momentum." He is a minority President who faces an opposition majority on Capitol Hill, a centrist Republican who confronts a political left and right, both flaming with angry frustration...
...Walter J. Hickel, who was once described by a former member of his administration as a man who "only opens his mouth to change feet." Seeking confirmation as Nixon's Secretary of the Interior, Hickel carefully stifled his celebrated whip-snapping temper and larded his answers with such Capitol Hill bromides as "the Congress in its wisdom." Once he even referred to "its wise wisdom...
Closed Doors. When it came time for Old Capitol Hill Hand William Rogers to testify, there was hardly a Senator in the Foreign Relations Committee who did not know him. As a courtesy to the incoming Secretary of State, Chairman William Fulbright held the meeting behind closed doors. Rogers discussed efforts with Moscow to settle the Middle East crisis and the incoming Administration's initiative in unsnarling the Paris talks (see THE WORLD...
...characteristically astute performance for Harris, who had also cleared his candidacy with Senator Ted Kennedy, South Dakota's Senator George McGovern and Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine, all potential contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1972. Harris, some Democrats said, had been the only politician on Capitol Hill who could breakfast with Humphrey, lunch with Lyndon Johnson and dine with the Bobby Kennedys. His wife LaDonna, who is half Irish and half Comanche Indian, frequently entertains small, select Washington dinner parties...