Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fellow. Lyndon Johnson has never ridden higher, and he should be a happy man. But he is not, and he may never be. He sits at his command-post desk in Office G14, Senate wing, U.S. Capitol, restless with energy, tumbling with talk. He flashes gold cuff links, fiddles with the gold band of a gold wristwatch, toys with a tiny gold pillbox, tinkers with a gold desk ornament. And he glances often at the green wall, where hangs Edmund Burke's framed warning about the vexations of leadership...
...Daddy Told Me." Small imperfections can upset Johnson terribly. His Sanka is always hot-but never quite hot enough. His staff, the hardest-working and most efficient on Capitol Hill, may reply to letters from 600 Texas constituents in a single day, leaving only 45 unanswered. Cries Johnson: "There's 45 people who didn't get the service they deserve today." When host at his LBJ Ranch near Johnson City, Texas, he often serves hamburgers cut to the shape of Texas. But an unavoidable symmetrical flaw seems to bother him. "Eat the Panhandle first," he urges his guests...
Already the U.S.S.R.'s gregarious new Ambassador to the U.S. Mikhail Menshikov, making his rounds of visits from the White House to Capitol Hill, was making headlines with meaningless proposals for a U.S.-U.S.S.R. friendship pact as a step toward "peace on our planet...
...terms as "dime-a-dance oratory" and "typical Truman claptrap." Even the President joined in the counterattack. "The economy of this country is a lot stronger than the spirit of those people that I see wailing about it," he told the National Food Conference in Washington. Amid the flap, Capitol Hill's Joint Economic Committee quietly reported a bipartisan conclusion: if further easing of credit and "acceleration" of federal spending fail to end the .recession, then "tax reduction will be in order"-but "such action is not now recommended...
...week's protests, both from Minnesota and from Capitol Hill, were overruled by Ezra Taft Benson. After listening to Judd and Miller for 40 minutes, he announced that he was not only staying on, but would "continue to pursue a course which I believe is best for our farmers." Most farm state G.O.P. Congressmen still were angrily certain that this was the worst possible political course, decided once more to ask Dwight Eisenhower to fire Benson. But Minnesota's Walter Judd was impressed by what he had seen and heard, sober second-thought: "I myself think...