Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another objection came to the President from Speaker Sam Rayburn. If some 60 Congressmen went off to the Pacific as observers, the Administration's legislative program might be blown to bits...
...President mulled the problem over for another day, discussed it with his Cabinet. Then he came to a sudden compromise decision. He ordered Operation Crossroads postponed for six weeks. His official statement: a large number of Congressmen would not be able to witness the tests on May 15 because of their heavy legislative schedule...
More important was the experts' emphatic agreement that Joseph Stalin was contemptuous of weakness, respectful of force. Congressmen moodily recalled the story of Stalin's reaction to a discussion of the moral influence of the Pope: "How many divisions has he got?" At week's end, after Congress had digested the headlines and the advice, it appeared likely that members would change their minds and continue the draft (see ARMY & NAVY), would take a long and sober second look at the universal military training bill (which had once seemed likely to die without debate), would consider...
...Hannegan got Administration heads in Congress together last week. They decided that it was high time to do something about the coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats that was hamstringing Harry Truman's legislative program. The something they decided on: a series of five "unity" dinners for Democratic Congressmen at Washington's plush Mayflower Hotel. The idea: to woo back into line Southerners and others who have strayed over to the opposition. Groups of 40 to 50 Congressmen were invited to each of the dinners, at which the salad will be mixed with solid talk about party solidarity...
There was plenty of reaction, most of it bad. A few Congressmen thought the speech "realistic"; the majority were cold, some were "shocked." While the Wall Street Journal thought it brilliant, with a "hard core of indisputable fact," Manhattan's devoutly pro-Soviet PM angrily called it an "ideological declaration of war against Russia...