Word: humphrey
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Obviously such a broad new venture would not be without domestic U.S. opponents-whom Nixon, perhaps, was better placed than Eisenhower or Dulles to convince and win over. Even Treasury Secretary George Magoffin Humphrey took to a podium in the Waldorf-Astoria before flying to Paris for the NATO meeting to assert that some estimates of Western Europe's need for new U.S. aid had been "greatly exaggerated. The fact is that in all probability existing institutions will be able to provide most of the assistance that may be needed." But the fact also was that any aid program...
Because the group of twenty is organized outside of Congress, much of the danger of Senatorial machinations may be avoided. Whereas Senators Douglas, Humphrey, McNamara, Morse, Murray, and Neuberger line-plunge might be stymied effectively within Congress, there is not much that Southern Senators and/or Republican ones can do to the reputations of Eleanor Roosevelt, H.S. Truman, and Adlai Stevenson. Most of the Twenty have passed through the fire of public scrutiny and stand either purified or hardened. As a result, they give the liberal platform a much solider foundation than the six enterprising young bucks could ever hope...
...congressional offseason, Washington's bare stage seemed especially inviting to the political Thespian. Thus, last week, did Minnesota's Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey cartwheel out with a proposal that won top billing in a slow political week. Along with five other Northern and Western Democrats (Illinois' Paul Douglas, Oregon's Wayne Morse and Richard Neuberger, Montana's James Murray and Michigan's Pat McNamara), Humphrey circulated for publication a "Democratic Declaration of 1957." Its message: as soon as the Congress opens, make an attempt to end Senate filibusters and enact civil-rights legislation...
Under present Senate rules, a two-thirds vote of the full Senate membership is required to cut off filibusters. Humphrey & Co. propose to change the rules so that a simple (i.e., non-Southern) majority can shut off debate. New York's Republican Senator Irving Ives, who is up for re-election in 1958, and New Jersey's Republican Senator Clifford Case found it difficult to resist. In a slow political week, they too added their names to the list of cloture sponsors...
This duty has been recognized by the six Democratic Senators who have stated that their party has a duty to present its own legislative program. In a letter sent last week to their colleagues, Senators Douglas, Humphrey, McNamara, Morse, Murray, and Neuberger offered a sixteen point program based upon their party's platform. Yet at present their proposals are not much more than an important step in the right dircetion. They should strive to make the Democratic party an effective instrument of opposition and of leadership, and to present the liberal point of view in a Congress where many ideas...