Word: caucusing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like most other Texas Senators before him. Lyndon Baines Johnson for nine years attended the Southern caucus of senators, was the Southerners' strong choice for Democratic floor leader in 1953. But a couple of years ago, other duties began to keep him busy at caucus time, even as the Southerners were meeting in vital civil rights strategy sessions. This year, to their discomfiture, he opened the 86th Congress with a quick drive to weaken the filibuster-fostering Rule 22, followed up a fortnight later with his own civil rights bill...
Sputnik-dominated 1958, Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson made his own speech two days before the President's, at the Senate Democratic caucus. Like President Eisenhower, he spoke of fiscal responsibility-but unlike the President, he could afford the luxury of advocating economy in principle and spending in practice. "Fiscal solvency concerns us all," said Lyndon Johnson. "It is a first concern, for no course is honest without the courage of financial prudence. But we cannot afford to bankrupt the national conscience to serve the ends of political bookkeeping." He assured the U.S. that he and his party stood ready...
...hustle a little. Promising a juicy committee assignment here, collecting an IOU there. Bridges knew just what Dirksen's margin would be (20-14) well before caucus time. By then he had another problem: such G.O.P. conservatives as Iowa's Bourke Hickenlooper, Kansas' Andy Schoeppel and Nebraska's Roman Hruska. angry over Cooper's refusal to surrender, plotted a surprise scheme to elect South Dakota's Karl Mundt to be party whip instead of California's Tommy Kuchel-thus take back the one top party post (out of four) that Bridges had offered...
...seems clear that the caucus vote split along pro-Martin versus anti-Martin lines, rather than pro-Martin versus pro-Halleck. This is not to say that Joe Martin has a raft of political enemies; on the contrary he has made an extraordinary number of personal friends on both sides of the aisle. But the G.O.P.'s disaster at the polls in November, which shaved its Congressional forces to 153 against 283 Democrats, produced a good deal of "Fire the manager" sentiment among the members of the team...
...great injury to our people." caucus that he will soon try to pass a bill setting up a multistate, multimillion-dollar fund to sell Southern segregation ideas in the North the way Hollywood sells a movie star...