Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...army took over, Gulek made no secret of his desire to be the next Republican Premier. Even after Inonu got the job last year, Gulek rose in party councils to declare that Inonu was too old and weak. "It is either me or him," Gulek told a Republican caucus...
...normally a just and magnanimous man, has seen fit to block, deride and ridicule. Adenauer's own Christian Democratic party (C.D.U.) is disgruntled because four of its oldtimers were dropped from the Cabinet and only learned of their demise from newsmen or by abrupt announcement in the party caucus; Adenauer had not bothered to consult them. West Berliners are furious because Berliner Ernst Lemmer was dropped from the Ministry of All-German Affairs, marking the first time a Berliner has not held this post...
...chaos was symptomatic of the growing feeling in Bonn that Adenauer, at 86, has lost his leadership. In recent months, der Alte has become increasingly isolated, seldom appears in the Bundestag, or even at the caucus meetings of his C.D.U. parliamentary faction. Often at Cabinet meetings he stays for a short time, then hands affairs over to Vice Chancellor Erhard. Der Alte seems uninterested in details, no longer gets the steady stream of reports from the Foreign Ministry on every detail of West Germany's relations abroad which he once demanded. Being out of touch even with the moods...
Sure enough, the Socialists, after a parliamentary caucus, refused to join the grand coalition. After conferring with such close cronies as Minister Without Portfolio Heinrich Krone, Konrad Adenauer listened to the news with stony-faced indifference, and seemed bone-tired as he bowed to the inevitable. Next morning the deputies of his party were hastily assembled. Floor Leader Heinrich von Brentano announced that Adenauer had, in effect, agreed to one of the key Free Democratic conditions: he would step down as Chancellor next fall. Brentano then drew cheers by adding that Vice Chancellor Ludwig Erhard would be included...
...next Cabinet seemed rather fine, but it was at least acceptable to everyone, including Strauss. Fresh from his tour of the Bavarian boondocks, where he was campaigning to help his party in this week's state elections, Strauss showed up in Bonn for a stormy party caucus. Then he announced his resignation from the Cabinet...