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...quite the "riotous collection of political pleasantry" Cameo claims, but some of the bands are pretty skillful. Former Little Rock Congressman and now Special Assistant to the President Brooks Hays is given the largest play, and in general he is worth it. Hay's humor is not the subtle jab of Adlai Stevenson; rather it is folksy, obvious, and almost slapstick. If Hays' remarks were printed they would come off dreadfully, but his quips gain life when told with the soft drawl of the southerner...
Lodge, in turn, recounted his experience in the Departments of Labor and State, and closed with a final jab at the absent Ted Kennedy. No President of the U.S. has ever had a member of his family sitting in Congress while in office, Lodge said, and asked why Kennedy thought he should break this tradition...
...public debt has swelled from $23 billion to $298 billion, and the number of federal employees has grown from 580,000 to 2,500,000. This is an issue about which Byrd, far from being resigned with the passing of the years, is still expertly indignant. Last week he jabbed a finger at a sheet of statistics on his cluttered desk and complained: "The civilian employment in Government went up 35,000 in just the last month." Jab, jab, jab went the finger. "Just think of that-35,000 in the last month...
...brought down the house with his very first line; few had ever seen the President laugh so hard. His "serious mattahs" and "in my views" were unmistakably Kennedy, and his "we must move ahead" sounded like the call to federal service. Reid had his Kennedy deliver a playful jab or two at British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who was also present: "He has covahed such a wide range of topics and made so many things cleah, including several centuries of British history . . . These are, these are not easy mattahs - even if you're British...
...think the same lines as the apparatus." All in all, it was a shoddy and confused display of name-calling without evidence. Senators of all persuasions, saddened by the performance, forbore to question him hard. Upon leaving the hearing room. Walker paused long enough to throw a right jab at a questioning newsman- Tom Kelly of the Scripps-Howard Washington Daily News. Then he headed back to Texas, where he is a candidate for Governor-and seems likely to finish low among six Democratic primary contenders...