Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seasoned philosophy: "I can just say it's been a very happy experience . . ." ¶ Interrupted a holiday weekend with his family and a few old friends at his Maryland mountain retreat, Camp David, to return to Washington by helicopter on Independence Day, lay the cornerstone of the Capitol's new east portico, using the same ceremonial trowel that George Washington used at the cornerstone dedication of the original building...
Past midnight, the bright white light atop the Capitol dome still shone over Washington, signaling that Congress was still in session. On the Senate floor, after six months of stalling, wrangling and maneuvering, U.S. history's bitterest battle over confirmation of a presidential appointment marched toward the showdown...
...heaped-up frustration at their inability to use their 64-34 majority to achieve a Democratic record. He was also the victim of Clint Anderson's obsessive campaign against him (TIME, June 15). Nursing a violent dislike built up during his years as a member and chairman of Capitol Hill's Joint Atomic Energy Committee, Anderson, to collect anti-Strauss votes, drew on his personal popularity in the Senate, drummed up party loyalty, and cashed every IOU he had for past favors rendered fellow Democrats...
Just who talked to Mike Monroney is his secret, but it is an open secret on Capitol Hill that the fellow Texans, House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, have made a deliberate new policy decision: the congressional leadership sees no profit in fighting President Eisenhower's legislative program, will go along pretty much with what the President wants for the rest of the session. And the decision, in turn, has signaled the widest and bitterest split in the Democratic Party in years...
...York's voters had discovered, such was the force of Rockefeller's ergful personality, such the warmth of his smile and the enthusiasm of his full-Nelson handshake that the Capitol Hill Club Republicans were entranced. At evening's end there was no question whatever in their minds about his being a formidable presidential rival to Club Member Richard Nixon (by then in California on a long-scheduled visit). Said Indiana's conservative Senator Homer Capehart of Rockefeller: "A fine personality - a compelling personality." Glowed New Jersey's James Auchincloss: "I don't think...