Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anxious exile in which he could only wonder if the chance would ever come again, the final months of combat, triumph and preparation anew?all that was behind Richard Milhous Nixon. Now, at 56, atop the citadel of power, he was ready to stand before the thousands in the Capitol Plaza and millions watching TV across the U.S. to take his oath of office as the nation's 37th President. In his inaugural address, he set out to sound clearly the tone of his Administration...
...Clean. If the move startled his colleagues on Capitol Hill, it was sure to have even a more galvanic effect on the nation's campuses, where until recently, McCarthy had enjoyed al most deified status. In an editorial entitled "Not So Clean," the Harvard Crimson said the resignation "served to strengthen the impression held in not a few quarters that McCarthy has gone over the political deep...
...scores was not enough. If the New Politics has any validity, it is that the politician needs continuing mass support, in election year and out. Johnson had earned his reputation and learned his trade in closet politics, in the one-party Texas of another era and the cloister of Capitol Hill. He had scant preparation for the larger, less orderly world of national politics...
...Congress muted, dimmed; agreement and consensus are pervasive there, while differences are always marginal. To its members, Congress itself is what is most important, and they struggle to preserve it and its internal balances and traditions with far more passion than they struggle to change the world outside the Capitol. Congress is a motherly institution, a deep, dark, beloved place which provides for the needs of its members, which offers them security, prestige, and some kind of purpose for their lives...
That is why Congress defends itself with such passion. Its members battle constantly with the President, and they attack the Supreme Court. As a few hundred poor people converged on Washington last May, the legislators decreed drastic penalties for demonstrations in the Capitol; a month before, machine guns had guarded the Hill against the black majority in the city below. To its members, Congress is sacred and inviolate, and must be protected at all costs...