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...mischief, Churchill loved the House. When German bombs gutted it in 1941, Churchill stood amid the war-torn rubble for five minutes, tears running down his cheeks, then turned to an aide. "This chamber must be rebuilt-just as it was," he said quietly. At war's end, he laid the cornerstone...
Finally, former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who after 40 years in the House was also ending his parliamentary career, rose to speak to the hushed chamber: "The life of the man we are today honoring is unique. The oldest amongst us can recall nothing to compare with it. The younger ones among you, however long you live, will never see the like again...
Status Secured. Addressing a nearly empty Senate chamber on an April day, Goldwater, "with the deepest sorrow," launched into a long denunciation of the Republican Administration's economic policies. He was "shocked" by Ike's "abominably high" $71.8 billion budget, which, he declared, "subverts the American economy because it is based on high taxes, the largest deficit in history, and the consequent dissipation of the freedom and initiative and genius of our people...
...quiet compliance. Negroes played golf on Jackson's municipal course, ate at a Vicksburg whites-only lunch counter, and, drawing scarcely a disapproving glance, checked into and ate at Jackson's two leading hotels and a motel. In Jackson, the way had been paved by a Chamber of Commerce policy statement urging local businessmen to "comply with the law, pending tests of its constitutionality in court...
...collapse came in the Chamber of Deputies over a negligible item in the budget-the provision of $238,000 in aid to private schools, which are mostly Roman Catholic. The Socialists, led by Veteran Pietro Nenni and, as always, anticlerical, abstained. But this time they were joined in their abstention by an odd lot of Communists, Liberals, Monarchists and Neo-Fascists. Even worse for Moro, at least ten of his own Christian Democratic Deputies left the chamber before the roll call. As a result, the government fell four short of a majority...