Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...article gives the general impression that the principle purpose of poll is the furtherance of some grand intrigue against the NSA. Neither the local nor national organization of Young Americans for Freedom has any connection whatever with the poll. Nor does the CRNSO, the YRNF College Caucus, or any other conservative national organization concerned with NSA. David L. Morton...
...every denizen of the U.S. Capitol knows, legislative history is sometimes made over a friendly bipartisan glass of bourbon or Scotch. The convivial sessions in Charlie Halleck's "Clinic" or Lyndon Johnson's princely rumpus room can be as important as any committee hearing or party caucus. Even House Speaker John McCormack, a teetotaler, has decided as a matter of legislative policy to continue the gently liquid "Board of Education" meetings held by Sam Rayburn and earlier Speakers...
...aircraft and behind me, but I don't really know." After a desperate struggle. Powers managed to bail out of his U2. His treatment by his Russian captors, he said, had been "much better than I expected." He won applause from the spectators in the packed Senate caucus room when he said: "There was one thing that I always remembered while I was there, and that was that I am an American." Powers left the hearing room exonerated by the committee of any misconduct...
Capitol Hill's cavernous Senate caucus room was alive with a sense of impending drama. Newsmen swarmed, all 250 public seats were filled early, and standees wedged themselves along the sidelines. All had come to see what promised to be the most exciting congressional hearing since Robert Kennedy, as counsel of a Senate subcommittee investigating labor racketeering, matched acid insults with Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa...
...chamber, the House was known as the "Bear Garden." When all else failed, Elaine flung himself on a couch behind his desk and suspended business until order was restored. Elaine strengthened the speakership with the ruling that a party was obliged to ratify the candidate chosen by the majority caucus-thus ending the chaos of intraparty and coalition candidacies (under the Constitution, the Speaker need not even be a member of the House...