Word: crustiest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wilmington, where he was mobbed by a crowd of 70,000, the President returned to Washington for his second formal press conference of the month. Making his announcements briskly, answering barbed questions with even-tempered directness, Johnson also bared a sardonic vein that recalled Harry Truman at his crustiest. Equating his own unpopularity with "prophets of doom" in the press, the President crowed: "I always get refreshed and I gain strength from going out to see the people without going through middlemen." Pursuing the issue, he told about "Uncle Ezra," who was once advised by a doctor to give...
...move to establish control over two major points of conservative power in the House-the Ways and Means and the Appropriations committees, long dominated by a coalition of conservative-minded Democrats and Republicans. When it was chaired by Missouri's late Clarence Cannon, one of the crustiest old tightwads in House history, Appropriations often choked off extra funds for almost anything that smacked of liberal legislation. Cannon died last spring, and the chairmanship went to Texas Democrat George Mahon, a loyal Lyndon man-but to Democratic leaders there was still a disturbing aura of conservatism about many...
...gaudy legends of the House Rules Committee, Kansas Republican Philip Campbell occupies a niche as the crustiest of that committee's traditionally crusty chairmen. In the early 1920s Campbell sported a Napoleonic curl in the middle of his forehead and had a personality to match, using the obstructive powers of the Rules Committee to block any legislation that he took a dislike to. When he saw fit, Campbell defied a majority of his own committee. If other committee members passed a resolution okaying a bill for floor action against his wishes, he would exercise a personal "pocket veto...
People, in turn, are attracted to Humphrey. His friends are many and their loyalty is lifelong. Some of the crustiest Republican conservatives and bourbon Democrats in the Senate-men whose political views are diametrically opposed to everything Humphrey stands for-are his cordial personal friends. It is said that if the Senate held a popularity contest-with the voting in rigid secrecy, to be sure -Humphrey would be one of the top favorites...