Word: gop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This may be good advice in terms of partisan politics, but for Eisenhower's program it could mean disaster. For it appears certain that if the elections and particularly the GOP primaries are dominated by the question of Communism, then the people who will be returned to the Senate and House this full will not be dedicated to the Eisenhower program. The President has often needed Democratic votes to push through his program in recent months. He can not afford the election of many more right-wing Republicans obsessed with the single issue of Communist subversion and blind...
...while not disturbing one whit the heavy responsibility laid on the federal government, it deprives that agency of all but a fraction of the power necessary to discharge it. One suspects that behind the Senator's oratory lies the same isolationism which has marked his wing of the GOP for years, that the amendment is simply a bigger and better version of the wild attacks on the State Department. Unable to succeed straightforwardly, Bricker and his colleagues have launched an oblique attack, seeking to abolish foreign entanglements by abolishing the power to make them. They ignore the fact that...
...tripped over his Committee's by-laws and popular resentment. Senator Joseph McCarthy tried to make himself to focal issue in the 1954 election but Eisenhower said he hoped the whole spies-in-government excitement would be a matter of history by the next election and that the GOP would run on its legislative program. Many claimed the President couldn't control his own lieutenants; other praised his political acumen in staying above the mudslinging...
Joseph C. Palamountain, Jr., assistant professor of Government, thinks Brownell decided to make his White case disclosure because of two political considerations, one inter-party, the other intra-party. With Ike's legislative program begged down and dissatisfaction evident in organized labor and agriculture, GOP popularity was waning. The accusations of laxity were aimed at cutting the Roperrating of the Democrats, he believes. And since Eisenhower isn't expected to seek reelection, the "Brownell-Dewey Republicans are fighting the McCarthy Tribune Neanderthalers" for party leadership. "McCarthy's recent attack on the Administration shows he is aware of this technique...
...thinks the GOP will try to parlay its attacks on Truman into long range political cannon-fodder. "In tennis they say when you find an opponent with a wooden leg you force him from side to side, forward and back. You want to tire him. In politics you do much the same thing. The Democrats for twenty years thought they had a man with a wooden leg in Herbert Hoover. Now the Republicans have found their man with a wooden leg: Harry Truman...