Word: congressmen
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While most Congressmen were still wading through the 834 pages of the Yalta papers (TIME, March 28), Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson set the Democratic line last week for the long debate that was sure to come. Said Johnson: "The [Yalta] mistakes-if such they were-appear to have been based upon the estimates and miscalculations of the military leaders in Europe and the Far East ... I am very proud of the fact that no one on my side of the aisle has arisen to question the motives of those military men, whether they be General Eisenhower or General MacArthur...
Twelve members of the Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee went to sea last week, for an overnight ride in the atomic submarine Nautilus. (Said California's Senator William Knowland: "This will be the deepest-thinking congressional committee meeting ever held.") Most Congressmen rushed back from their trip on the top-secret vessel full of enthusiasm and ready with tales of a night...
...proclaimed her "the cutest little Queenie I ever saw." The Congressman and his antics came a few years too soon: today he could play his role before the whir, glare and flash of a dozen cameras. In the harlequinade tumble for television, radio and newspaper publicity, more and more Congressmen have begun to play to the microphone and the lens...
When he sat before the cameras on Capitol Hill (TIME. Feb. 14 et seq.),False Witness Harvey Matusow appeared to enjoy his role. He babbled about his stringless Yo-Yo. eagerly called himself a liar, and caused consternation among Congressmen, who thought he should be jailed for perjury. The legal problem: Could the Government, in prosecution for perjury, clearly establish specific Matusow lies, as distinguished from his occasional truths? Last week, for Harvey Matusow, both the scene and the situation changed...
...Breakfasted with 20 Republican women, lunched with 20 freshman Congressmen, 16 Democrats and four Republicans, and cracked: "I'm always bipartisan when I am in the minority...