Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before the 85th Congress was three days old.,Dwight Eisenhower appeared on Capitol Hill to seek approval of the new doctrine designed to keep Communism out of the Middle East (TIME, Jan. 7). Before him in crowded rows and galleries sat the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, the members of the diplomatic corps (except the Russians and satellites, who stayed home), the Justices of the Supreme Court, the Cabinet and packed public galleries. The gravity of the occasion was indicated by the fact that a President had not in modern times addressed a new Congress in advance...
...sooner had the President waved his last wave and left Capitol Hill than the comments began to click off the news tickers. Congress would examine the proposals "carefully and thoroughly," promised Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, scheduling hearings before the Foreign Relations Committee. Senate Minority Leader William Knowland remarked that he would "support a policy that would prevent Soviet aggression," but "the details will, of course, have to be worked out by the legislative arm." South Carolina's Olin Johnston was flatly against the whole plan. "I am supporting the President," drawled Georgia's Carl Vinson, chairman...
Bounding up Capitol Hill last week with the handshake and "hi ya" enthusiasm of schoolboys beginning a new term, members of that exclusive academy, the U.S. Senate, made a disconcerting discovery. In a body whose love for headlines is exceeded only by its awe of seniority, the new boy from Ohio was focusing attention on himself. Not only were gallery eyes during opening session fixed on stonefaced, wavy-haired Frank Lausche, but the Senate's majority and minority leaders both had to reckon with his presence...
While his father was still in Congress, Billy lived part-time in Washington, became a familiar sight in the Capitol corridors. He was a political prodigy. "His idea of a game," recalls J.R., still alive and alert at 83, "was to get a box to stand on and make a speech." With a lisp caused by two widely separated front teeth, Billy Knowland would get up on his box and proclaim: "Wepwethentative government ith the way we do thingth in thith country." The inscription on his grammar-school graduation program read: "Appearance-politician. Besetting sin-politics." At twelve he spoke...
...G.O.P. Senate forces, Bill Knowland's job is to transmit the plans and attitudes of a majority President to the minority party in the Senate, to seize the initiative, where possible, in a chamber balanced at 49 Democrats and 47 Republicans. As the most spotlighted Republican on Capitol Hill, Knowland's responsibility (which he shares with House Minority Leader Joe Martin) is to see to it that the Republican congressional record will contribute to Republican congressional victory in a 1958 that looks all too shaky. Moreover, if the U.S. is to get value received for its national electoral...