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Johnson also saw Acting Majority Leader Earle Clements four times last week, filled the air with angrily colorful phrases when a nurse asked Clements to depart.
But if the hospital was a far livelier place with Johnson there, the U.S. Senate was far less zestful with him gone. His standin, Kentucky's Clements, is a bland, backroom politician whose only spiciness lies in his strong taste for Tabasco sauce, which he pours unstintingly into his...
The most obvious choice to take over, as Acting Majority Leader, was Kentucky's Senator Earle C. Clements, the Democratic whip, who, like Johnson, has the invaluable knack of staying on good terms with all shades of Democratic Senate factionalism. Clements is a quiet, industrious, somewhat ponderous behind-the...
* Not to be confused with Kentucky's Earle Clements, Democratic whip in the U.S. Senate.
After Old Nick: Hubert. The night before the Democrats held their official caucus, 19 New-Fair Deal Senators, most of them in a mood to stir up trouble, met with New York's Herbert Lehman. Agenda: discussion of an anti-filibuster change in the Senate rules. A fight on...