Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With Congress gone home for the year, the great Battle of the Budget was over, the last ax blow struck, the last oratorical volley fired. But a postbattle skirmish broke out last week as President Eisenhower disputed congressional estimates of how much Capitol Hill really cut from his hacked-at 1958 budget...
...original bill was sent to Capitol Hill by a Republican Administration and supported there by a heavy Republican majority. But Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson took it over and nearly succeeded, with softening amendments, in making it a Democratic Party bill. That bill pleased hardly anyone: Southern popular sentiment was clearly against any bill at all, while the North held its nose at the weak Johnson version. In the final result, it .was House Republicans and Assistant Attorney General Bill Rogers who managed to put some teeth back into the bill...
...Rayburn consulted with Northern liberal Democrats, who warned him that the Republican plan would be politically difficult for them to oppose. Late one afternoon, Rayburn went over to the other side of the Capitol for a heart-to-heart talk with Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson. They agreed that some sort of civil rights bill had to be passed at this session; otherwise, the party-splitting issue would return to plague the Democrats in Election Year, 1958. Next morning Lyndon went to work to find out just what kind of a jury trial compromise could get past the Senate...
Call from a Cadillac. Next morning, on his way to the Capitol, Johnson called Republican Senate Leader Bill Knowland on the ship-to-shore radiophone in his Cadillac limousine. "Sounds like you're in Texas," said Knowland. Replied Johnson, thinking of the congressional adjournment that would come soon after a civil rights agreement: "That's where I'm going to be-if you agree with what I want to talk about...
...Democrat Dennis Chavez replied that Douglas could keep his ratty old furniture if he liked, but other Senators were going to live better. Cried Minnesota's Democrat Hubert Humphrey, who hopes that the bill will improve the Senate restaurant: "Hundreds of hours every day in this capitol are wasted by officials who are paid $22,500 a year, standing in line to get something to eat, as if they were in Moscow, queued up to get a yoyo. And when one does eat, one is packed closer than Norwegian sardines in a Bolivian...