Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your article, too often Congressmen yield to their desire for reelection instead of to their knowledge of what is right or wrong for the whole country, then I fail to see where Democracy has anything to recommend it above Fascism or Naziism. If we must be bribed to perform a simple duty, then the quality of the duty must be largely determined by the size of the bribe. And if our Congressmen feel that with the assurance of a lifetime income . . . they can render better service, then God help us and all the peoples who are wholeheartedly fighting...
Could the people take it? Washington did not seem to think the people could. Army and Navy communiqués stressed good news, toned down bad. The President, in a testy mood, appeared to feel that the people did not yet understand the war. Congressmen, bogged in gloom and desperately trying to save face on their self-pension bill, potshot at each other...
Unquestionably there was a Republican handful of Congressmen that the President could not openly oppose, as well as a double handful of Democrats he would be delighted to see beaten. But on their Congressional record, most of the G.O.P. Congressmen would be fair game. In short, the President, while seeming to reject "politics as usual" during wartime, actually was getting ready to espouse it with hearty indirectness. The example of Woodrow Wilson in 1918 was strong in the memories of all. That War President had been politically inept enough to ask directly for the election of a Democratic Congress...
Franklin Roosevelt asked only the election of Congressmen who had backed up their Government during a national emergency...
...Flynn speech and its contents. Behind him. at the press conference, as usual, sat his political adviser, Charles Michelson, who is Flynn's $25,000-a-year right-hand man and edits all his speeches. The President said: When the country is at war, we want Congressmen, regardless of party, who will back up the Government of the United States and who have a record of backing up the country in an emergency-regardless of party...