Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fight in the Senate clearly pointed up the pre-eminent power position of New Hampshire's veteran Senator Styles Bridges, who makes no bones of his personal view that Ike is a political tyro, or of his political view that the center of governmental power should rest on Capitol Hill, not at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. ¶ Another Republican leadership fight in the House resulted in a victory for Indiana Republican Charles Halleck-but only after he specifically promised rebel forces that he would be their forceful representative to the White House rather than vice versa...
Follow the Leader. Eisenhower Backer Halleck (who golfs with Ike at Burning Tree more than anybody else on Capitol Hill) became majority leader for the second time after Eisenhower's 1952 victory. His party loyalty code soon led him to support policies of the middle-roading Administration, e.g., public housing, reciprocal trade, foreign aid, with the same narrow-eyed gung ho he had mustered against the same programs for 17 years. He did not flinch. "Damn you, you've got to be with us on this one," he twanged at reluctant colleagues. "The President needs your support...
Thrift v. Drift. Capitol Hill Democrats saw quickly that if they started a spending spree they would be opening themselves up to the charge that they had thrown the budget out of kilter. "Dishonest" and "political," cried Tennessee's Senator Estes Kefauver (see PEOPLE). Pennsylvania's Fair-Dealing Senator Joseph Clark accused Administration leaders of the decade's most difficult athletic feat: "hiding their heads in the sand and running away from the facts." Various other Democrats labeled the budget figures "unrealistic," "dangerous," "phony," "disingenuous," "wishful thinking" and "a bookkeeping exercise...
...Langen chalked up the nation's only G.O.P. conquest of a Democratic seat by defeating two-termer Coya Knutson. Her prestige damaged at campaign time by a "Coya Come Home" letter from innkeeping Husband Andy Knutson (TIME, May 19 et seq.), Coya last week got Andy to the Capitol to admit he had written the letter at the instigation of his wife's political opponents and to add that he would like to see Coya back in Congress. The House committee found that Republican Langen had taken no part in the letter writing, tactfully suggested that Coya Knutson...
...friend remarked to Republican Pickert: "Wayne really gave your old pal Ike a good working over last night." Snapped Pickert: "Ike has forgot more about war than the common man will ever know." At that point Wayne Morse blew with a fury old friends in Oregon and the U.S. Capitol are wary of. Soon after Morse sent to Employee Pickert a check for $49.25 in wages and a parting explanation: "I am very sorry that it became necessary to end our working relationships. However, I have found from experience that whenever one has such strong differences with my political views...