Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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National security, said Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson to his Democratic caucus, is the issue that will "dominate the Congresses of free men for lifetimes to come." And the man who clearly intends to dominate that issue and the Congress itself in Election Year 1958 is none other than Lyndon Johnson. Last week, as he tirelessly loped through one of the most remarkable performances of a remarkable political career, Johnson stole the show from the other members of the U.S. Senate (50 Democrats, 46 Republicans) and House of Representatives (230 Democrats, 200 Republicans, 5 vacancies) who had gathered...
Johnson, chairman of the Senate Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee, began by deciding that the Democratic caucus, usually a cut-and-dried organizational affair, this time would be devoted to national defense. He suggested that Republicans do the same; they did, but by the time they got around to it they had little to do but read the headlines Johnson already had made...
Control of Space. Johnson opened his caucus by announcing that "as a courtesy to the President" there would be no Senate speeches until after the President's State of the Union message. At about that point aides started distributing mimeographed copies of Lyndon Johnson's own State of the Union message, carefully prepared, often eloquent, pointing to faults in the U.S. defense system and proposing programs for action...
...concrete product of the President's diminished prestige was the caucus called for Senate Democrats, who heard Lyndon Johnson switch from the "me-too-maybe" line of the first session of the 85th to a carefully formulated program. Senate Democrats have caucused before, but seldom before a State of the Union address and never with such wide ranging problems under discussion...
...flight of the intercontinental Atlas, even though only over a 500-mile test range, that was the roar heard 'round the world. Instantly the word was flashed to President Eisenhower at the NATO conference. The message electrified the Senate caucus room where Texas' Lyndon Johnson and his Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee were conducting missile hearings. "That," said Johnson, "is mighty good news...