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...million to more than $100 million. Huey called the state legislature "the finest collection of lawmakers money can buy." Earl's contribution was often to placate or scare the lawmakers, and he once did it in a clumsy way that displeased Huey. When the legislature tried to impeach Governor Huey, Earl hurled himself upon one hostile lawmaker and bit his throat. Huey thought that impolitic...
...settled by amilitary armistice; it is what is done after the armistice that counts. At the time of the Korean truce-signing, Illinois Senator Paul Douglas remarked wryly that if the truce "had been put through by Truman and Acheson, there would have been cries throughout the country to impeach them." Douglas was probably correct, but not in the sense that he intended. The U.S. had accepted a Korean armistice because it trusted Dwight Eisenhower to make the most of the uneasy peace to work out a firm approach to Communism in Asia-something that Truman and Acheson had never...
...hostile Congress almost managed to impeach President Johnson, and years later Harry Truman in a burst of indignation branded for history "that good for nothing, do nothing 80th Congress." In many less obvious cases, a Congress controlled by an opposition party has slowed, temporarily stymied, or completely stopped a President's policies and the program on which the voters elected...
Columnist Drew Pearson has been gunning for Florida's Governor Fuller Warren. Pearson had urged the Florida legislature to impeach Warren on the ground that his campaign had been heavily financed by gamblers (TIME, July 16, 1951). Last week, on vacation, Pearson gave Warren the use of his column for an uncensored counterattack. Wrote Guest Columnist Warren...
...lots of Presidents who could be mentioned. Pressed to name some, the President adopted his tartest professorial tones. Well, he said, there was a gentleman by the name of Jefferson who paid $15 million for the greatest addition to this country that has ever been made. They tried to impeach him for that, said Harry Truman, if he remembered correctly. Then there was a gentleman by the name of Tyler who agreed to annex Texas. And there were other gentlemen by the names of Polk, Lincoln and Roosevelt who exercised their powers to meet emergencies...