Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year was 1953, Dwight Eisenhower's first-and un-happiest-in office. At the heart of Ike's troubles were the many Republican Congressmen who, unable to accept responsibility after their long political exile, spent most of their time trying to thwart the Republican Administration. At a Cabinet meeting on May 22, Defense Secretary Charles Wilson said he wished more Republican legislators would realize that they were no longer members of the opposition. Replied the President: "Brother, I heartily agree." When Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, at that meeting, cautioned that the national debt might go above the legal...
...description the President still "did not feel like doing a jig." Had he actually, they pressed, made the decision himself? Or had he assented meekly to a judgment already made? Said Hagerty: "The President certainly made the decision. He sure did." On Capitol Hill the question was echoed by Congressmen considering what to do about legislation spelling out the point at which a President should be relieved as incapacitated. (Their decision: do nothing until after November.) Only one question was more gripping at that moment: whether Ike would decide not to run. When neither no nor yes to that...
...President looked grimly around at the ten Democratic and Republican House leaders who sat at a White House conference table last Tuesday in various attitudes of discomfort. Never (reported one of the Congressmen later) had Dwight Eisenhower appeared so vigorous and determined: he was arguing against the House threat to cut $1.1 billion from his $4.9 billion foreign-aid program. The cuts, Ike said spiritedly, were "destructive" and posed a "dangerous threat" to the nation's security. Against such reductions, already approved by the powerful House Foreign Affairs Committee (TIME, June 4) and about to come up for House...
What caused the cuts and the 18-11 committee vote ordering them? Dick Richards eagerly ticked off deep-down, long-smoldering reasons. For one, Congressmen consider Pentagon bookkeeping atrocious, listened with narrow-eyed interest last week when Comptroller General Joe Campbell journeyed to the Hill to tell the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about the $400 million surplus from the 1954 foreign-aid appropriation that the Defense Department refused to turn back to the Treasury. (Retorted the Defense Department: "a technicality.") Even after his committee's cuts, said Richards, "there's enough money in here with the carryover...
...quick action was solid evidence that the mood of Congress has changed since President Eisenhower vetoed the first farm bill last month. Prodded by mail from home, Congressmen have been seeking the quickest approach to a bill the President will sign. The Senate bill, which has the qualified approval of Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, contains many of the provisions the President had hoped for when his veto sent Congress back for another try. However, it fails him on some points, e.g., although it would create a $1.2 billion soil bank, it would not provide any payments this year...