Word: hruska
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...others: Chairman Milton S. Eisenhower, Terence Cardinal Cooke of New York City, Senator Philip Hart, Judge A. Leon Higginbotham and Psychiatrist Walter Menninger. The majority included Senator Roman Hruska, Congressmen Hale Boggs and William M. McCulloch, Author Eric Hoffer, Attorneys Leon Jaworski and Albert Jenner Jr. and Judge Ernest W. McFarland...
...favorite of the liberals was Pennsylvania's Hugh Scott, 68, an "Eastern Establishment" Republican who has served for the past eight months as minority whip under Dirksen. As the week began, the more conservative members were split between Nebraska's Roman Hruska, 65, and Tennessee's Howard Baker Jr., 43, Dirksen...
Baker could count at least twelve firm votes last week, and had a chance of capsizing Scott by picking up half a dozen undecided votes as well as support from Hruska's conservatives. Then Hruska, the third declared candidate, decided to drop out of the race and throw his support behind Baker. That left Baker and Scott in something close to a dead heat...
...capital after another, government discussions turned rapidly from détente to defense. There were some predictable recriminations charging that the free world had been overly optimistic about Soviet aims. Typical of that mood was Nebraska Republican Roman L. Hruska, who said in a Senate speech, "Our belief in the theory of Soviet mellowing has debilitated our entire military strategy." Many Western military leaders were openly grateful that the Soviets had shaken the politicians out of complacency before NATO was further enfeebled. As retired General Alfred M. Gruenther, a former NATO commander, put it: "The Soviet invasion was a jolt...
Rarely had so many politicians altered their positions so radically and so swiftly. As mail cascaded into their Capitol Hill offices, Senators and Representatives who had long opposed even the mildest gun-control legislation nimbly switched sides. "Times change," said Nebraska's Republican Senator Roman Hruska, once Capitol Hill's strongest opponent of controls, "and sometimes they change rapidly...