Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because of opposition to the group by Congressional chieftans, Senator Lyndon Johnson, Majority leader of the Senate, and Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House, only two of the 12 members of Congress Butler appointed have agreed to serve. They are Senators Estes Kefauver (Tenn.) and Hubert H. Humphrey (Minn...
...involved no new out lay by the U.S.; Washington had already subscribed the money to the fund as part of its quota, just as Britain had subscribed $1.3 billion, and now the U.S. simply made the cash available. This way of helping Britain suited Treasury Secretary George Humphrey; he did not have to ask Congress for the money. The U.S. decision to use the fund as the main instru ment for supporting Britain was also in line with President Eisenhower's decision to handle the Middle East crisis through the U.N. In both operations, the U.S. turned...
Dulles had some cause for confidence. Soviet brutality in Hungary had once again impressed upon the mind of Western Europe the need for NATO as a defense shield. On hand with Dulles in Paris were Defense Secretary Charles Wilson and Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, both determined that NATO should not let down its guard. And in the face of the Soviet threat, other NATO members were no longer so anxious to cut costs by slashing NATO manpower...
Johnson and Sam Rayburn have declined to serve on the "20-man" Democratic Advisory Committee and the eight persons who already have accepted posts include only three legislators, Senators Humphrey and Kefauver and Congresswoman Edith Green of Oregon. Consequently, Paul Butler's hope that powerful members of Congress would join seems to have been overly optimistic, if not naive, for in intent and organization the group was both an insult and a threat to Johnson, Rayburn...
...Humphrey, Douglas, et al may learn a lesson from Johnson's affirmation that legislative programs must be achieved in Congress. On the Senate floor they will have an opportunity to advance a liberal Democratic platform, and in that house's working they may be able to put much of it into...