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Thus last week did New Mexico's Clint Anderson report on the progress of his battle against the confirmation as U.S. Secretary of Commerce of one of the nation's ablest and thorniest public figures: Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss, 63, longtime member and chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and a man whose governmental career Anderson has sworn to end. Despite Anderson's optimism, the outcome of that battle was still in cliff-hanging doubt, with the decision likely to swing on two or three Senate votes-and with the U.S. already the loser...
Blood Feud. In its simplest, unhappiest terms, the fight is the result of a blood feud between Lewis Strauss and Clint Anderson, both eminently capable, dedicated citizens who have served the nation long and well, but who, by the chemistry of personality and the conflict of ideas, have come to hate each other. But the Strauss case has gone far beyond the personal quarrel between two men; it has widened out to involve their friends and their associates, strained old ties and old loyalties, brought charge and countercharge, insult and counterinsult, rumor and counterrumor. And it has become a major...
...meeting that test, President Eisenhower has deeply committed himself, both personally and politically. He has broken off a longstanding friendship with Clint Anderson, until recently a frequent fourth at White House bridge games. The President has declared himself behind Lewis Strauss to the end, no matter how bitter...
...Final Break. As senior Democratic Senator and sometime chairman of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, Clint Anderson was thrown into close contact with AEC Chairman Strauss, and that contact ripened into a beautiful hatred. Today, neither Strauss nor Anderson can give any specific cause for their feud; indeed, each swears that he went out of his way to be friendly to the other, only to be rebuffed...
...Even Clint Anderson had little hope of defeating Strauss-but he determined that it would not be for lack of trying. Not himself a member of the Commerce Committee, he was notably present during most of the long, disputatious hearings. Appearing as a witness armed with a 42-page attack, Anderson accused Strauss of practicing "deception," telling "unqualified falsehoods" and creating "myths" about his achievements. Having hurled his thunderbolts, Anderson took a seat close behind Wyoming's Gale McGee, a committee member, fed him information and questions to use against Strauss. A liberal with an instinctive dislike for Hoover...