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...lobbyists lobbied the rule out of existence, and lobbying became not only more flagrant but more fragrant. During Woodrow Wilson's Administration, Senate investigators discovered that one of their own teen-age pages was being paid to tip off the National Association of Manufacturers' lobbyist about confidential cloakroom talks...
Johnson's assets have been his painstaking care for details and his willingness to spend long hours gliding around the Senate, from chamber to cloakroom to corridor, bringing men of widely varying beliefs together in a new party unity. When Johnson wanted the Senate to move faster in its processes his signal was a finger twirled in the air, in the manner of an airplane mechanic instructing a pilot to "Rev your engines." But as the daily, nerve-shredding pounding of brain and body took its toll, perhaps Lyndon Johnson revved his own engines too often...
...Robert Poage, a peanut supporter, tried to put the blame on the candymakers. Waving a peanut bar over his head, Poage cried: "Mr. Chairman, here is a candy bar I just purchased within the last five min utes. This is the only peanut bar you can buy in the cloakroom. This peanut bar weighs, according to its wrapper, one and one-eighth ounces. You can make more than 14 bars out of one pound of peanuts, if you made them all out of peanuts." Poage slowly unwrapped the bar, continued darkly: "As a matter of fact...
After morning committee meetings, George gets to the Democrats' Senate cloakroom by 11:45 and holds informal court in a brown leather chair, smoking filter-tipped cigarettes (doctor's orders) and strewing ashes all over his coat front. Younger Democrats know that they can find him there, often drop by for aid or advice, e.g., when a junior Senator, heading his first subcommittee, recently asked George how he could get a reluctant Cabinet member to testify at hearings, George said he would look into the matter. The Cabinet officer dutifully appeared before the subcommittee early the next week...
Bridges in the Rooms. While Byrd effectively operated as the floor manager against the tax cut (and Delaware's Republican Senator John Williams as the G.O.P.'s most persistent orator). New Hampshire's Republican Senator Styles Bridges ran the campaign in the cloakroom. Operator Bridges, an expert in dispensing political favors, collected some of his many I.O.U.s to keep Republicans in line. Some farm Senators, e.g., Idaho's Herman Welker, North Dakota's Milton Young and South Dakota's Francis Case, all up for re-election next year, seemed to be wavering toward...