Word: clare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Torrent of Abuse. With such a lopsided committee endorsement. Senate confirmation seemed likely to be routine. Then, day before the confirmation vote, Wayne Morse took the Senate floor, orated for 32 hours-through some 20,000 words-against Clare Luce. Commented Connecticut's Republican Senator Prescott Bush when it was over: "I doubt there has ever been a more severe and bitter attack upon an individual who has been nominated by a President for a high post in the service of this Government." Samples of the Morse attack...
...comedy done, the Senate finally-after a debate that took up some 65,000 words in the Congressional Record-got around to confirming Clare Luce as Ambassador to Brazil. The vote: a lopsided 79 (33 Republicans, 46 Democrats) to 11 (all Democrats...
...factor in the "Bolivian incident." Christian Herter, then Acting Secretary of State, refused the offer. "Almost unanimously the press of Brazil asserted that even if a few U.S. Senators were unable to do so, the Brazilian people were quite capable of distinguishing between Bolivia and Brazil, and between Clare Boothe Luce and Mr. Luce...
Meanwhile, the news wires were already humming with Clare Luce's own terse comeback at Wayne Morse. "I am grateful for the overwhelming vote of confirmation in the Senate," she stated. "We must now wait until the dirt settles. My difficulties, of course, go some years back and began when Senator Wayne Morse was kicked in the head by a horse...
...This Slanderer." Compared to Morse's 20,000-word tirade, Clare Luce's 22-word wisecrack was a pebble slingshot against a ton of brickbats. But it stung Wayne Morse. As soon as the Senate wound up its close REA vote (see The Congress), Morse stood up. Not so soon, said Morse, "did I expect that those of us who voted against the nomination of Clare Boothe Luce would be proved so right." He read off her horse-kick comment, argued that it showed he was right all along about the "emotional instability on the part of this...