Word: jenner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Destroy & Rebuild. Constantly becoming more frustrated, Lawyer Jenner let it be known last fall that he would like to leave the Senate and take a U.S. Court of Appeals bench in Chicago. The Department of Justice pointed out to him that the Constitution prohibits a man from stepping directly from the U.S. Senate to the federal bench. From then on Jenner sulked, and refused even to talk to his fellow Indiana Senator, Republican Homer Capehart, about any other nominee for the post. "Believe it or not," Capehart told a friend, "the senior Senator from Indiana...
Capehart finally got his appointment only to have Jenner berate him violently for supporting the Eisenhower program. "I've never taken so much abuse in my life," Capehart later confessed. "I'm afraid one of the 96 Senators is nuts." By that time Jenner was calling Capehart, who himself has Grade A credentials in the right-of-center division of the G.O.P., a "New Deal sonofabitch...
Back home in Indiana, there were other developments to add to Jenner's irritation. President Eisenhower was obviously friendly with Indiana's forward-looking Governor George North Craig, who had seized control of the state Republican organization from the Jenner forces (TIME, March 7). At the beginning of 1956, Jenner was not even showing much interest in leading his own faction of the Indiana G.O.P. organization. He predicted the ignominious defeat of Capehart and other Republicans in Indiana next November. While his lieutenants sour-graped that control of the Indiana G.O.P. would be worthless in the great defeat...
...Symbol & a Symbol. Last week Indiana was just catching up with a classic Jenner tirade delivered in Chicago at a meeting of the bitter-right Abraham Lincoln National Republican Club. In a rabble-rousing outburst against the Eisenhower Administration, Jenner cried that patriotism and courage and the Constitution are going "out of style" in Washington. He called the conduct of U.S. foreign policy "nauseating," and roared that the State Department under John Foster Dulles "talks anti-Communism but silently, secretly carries on a planned retreat before the Communist advance." His question: "Could our fifth column have planned it that...
Musing about his colleague's tirades, Homer Capehart last week said, of the state where Bill Jenner once was a political monarch: "I don't think the people of Indiana are taking it seriously." In 1956, Senator Jenner is the symbol of a brand of Republicanism that has quietly, gradually, relentlessly been made obsolete by the Eisenhower Administration. He has been transformed from a reactionary into a fossil...