Word: flaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...given national problem and make it look as though the Democrats are doing everything, the Republicans nothing. When President Eisenhower was riding high during his first Administration, Johnson's line was that the Democrats were saving Ike from the Republicans. When Ike faltered during the great budget flap a year ago, ex-New Dealer Johnson patented economy as a Democratic invention-and his Democrats even cut seriously into the defense budget. When the Administration presented a tough civil rights bill, it was Johnson who maneuvered both Democrats and Republicans into a compromise-for which Democrats took credit in both...
...flag terms as "dime-a-dance oratory" and "typical Truman claptrap." Even the President joined in the counterattack. "The economy of this country is a lot stronger than the spirit of those people that I see wailing about it," he told the National Food Conference in Washington. Amid the flap, Capitol Hill's Joint Economic Committee quietly reported a bipartisan conclusion: if further easing of credit and "acceleration" of federal spending fail to end the .recession, then "tax reduction will be in order"-but "such action is not now recommended...
Washington's flap is eternal, and no sooner had Ike made his availability known than a storm brewed about Richard Nixon as his running mate. Harold Stassen, who was supposed to advise the President on international disarmament, urged dumping Nixon in favor of Massachusetts' Governor Christian Herter. Hagerty, who liked Nixon and thought he was the strongest candidate for Vice President, consulted the President, issued a statement pointedly reading Stassen out of the official Eisenhower family in his fight against Nixon. Later, when Nixon announced that he wanted a second term, Hagerty again went to Ike, came...
...early 1930s. Dust-parched, drought-wrung, a steady caravan of humans clattered west over U.S. 66. Piled high in antiquated jalopies and steaming trucks were the precious things of their lives: children, a tacky mattress or two, tattered blankets, a stick of old furniture, cooking utensils, a flap of canvas. Behind them, in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Missouri, lay the dead land of the drought. Ahead, at the end of the road of flight: California, the rich, full, well-watered San Joaquin Valley, where vast orchards and fields seemed magically alive with grapes, potatoes, peaches, cotton. Those were the bad years...
...Onetime Treasury Secretary George Magoffin Humphrey, now board chairman of National Steel, has popped up both at the White House in Washington and at Augusta, Ga. to repeat the same kind of talk that launched the disastrous Humphrey budget flap of last spring. Humphrey is urging the President to increase military expenditures, cut taxes, balance the budget, accomplish all these by limiting such "junk" items as foreign aid, health and welfare, farm subsidies and veterans' benefits. Humphrey's frequent visits are beginning to wear on White House aides. Cracked one Ike assistant to Humphrey: "Who's going...