Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Loyal Tribute. What of Wilson's own defects? Winston Churchill once wrote: "If Mr. Wilson had been either simply an idealist or a caucus politician, he might have succeeded. His attempt to run the two in double harness was the cause of his undoing." And Georges Clemenceau, the old French tiger whose claws helped to shred the Wilsonian dream, snarled: "He acted to the very best of his abilities in circumstances the origins of which had escaped him and whose ulterior developments lay beyond...
...bill up for discussion before a caucus of Senate Republicans one day last week promised to freeze farm props for another year at the surplus-building levels that cost the U.S. $3.25 billion last fiscal year. Already passed by both branches of Congress (TIME, March 31), it was a deliberate slap in the face for Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, who wants permission to cut farm subsidies and make a start toward whittling down the scandalous farm-surplus problem. The argument essentially was between principle and politics. It took the Republican caucus exactly 80 minutes to stand foursquare with politics...
...backed him up, and North Dakota's Milton Young remarked tartly that President Eisenhower had certainly not been talking about farm-prop cuts during the 1956 campaign. Quite the contrary, claimed Young, and added portentously: "Explain that to your farmers." Colorado's Gordon Allott suggested that the caucus might take advantage of the recession by casting the farm freeze as one of the antirecession pump-primers currently in favor with both the Administration and Congress. Utah's Arthur Watkins argued against a caucus resolution favoring the farm-freeze bill, pointing out that his fellow Mormon, Ezra Benson...
...Pappy") O'Daniel-and got counted out by a highly suspicious 1,311 votes. He ran again in 1948, this time against former Governor Coke Stevenson-and got counted in by an equally suspicious 87 votes. During his first Senate days he was invited to a Southern caucus by the man who today stands as his most powerful backer: Georgia's Senator Richard B. Russell. There was an argument over Southern strategy in fighting a proposed change in the Senate's cloture rule, and Johnson sided with Russell, who was both pleased and impressed. A few days...
Johnson exercises Senate control at all levels; he is the party leader, runs the policy committee, the party caucus, everything. He even took over the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee, which helps elect liberals and conservatives alike, by wangling its directorship for Kentucky's ex-Senator Earle Clements...