Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sooner had the President waved his last wave and left Capitol Hill than the comments began to click off the news tickers. Congress would examine the proposals "carefully and thoroughly," promised Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, scheduling hearings before the Foreign Relations Committee. Senate Minority Leader William Knowland remarked that he would "support a policy that would prevent Soviet aggression," but "the details will, of course, have to be worked out by the legislative arm." South Carolina's Olin Johnston was flatly against the whole plan. "I am supporting the President," drawled Georgia's Carl Vinson, chairman...
...Pressures. For his part, Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson had to summon ailing Matthew M. Neely of West Virginia. Plagued by a broken hip, aging (82) Matt Neely was wheeled in, sat uncomfortably fingering a water cup, waiting for the roll call. But not even Neely's arrival in a wheelchair, nor the appearance of Adlai Stevenson in the gallery, could shift the glow of a glorious moment from Frank Lausche, as he sat poised and quiet in an end seat, an aisle's breadth away from Republicanism...
...shoddy workmanship, which betrays the possible best, and from cowardly expediency, which is treason to the highest integrity." With the 33 other members beginning terms, he marched to the Senate well to be sworn in by the Vice President. Then came Lausche's moment. When Texas Democrat Lyndon Johnson proposed that Arizona's venerable Carl Hayden be elected Senate President Pro Tempore, Republican Bill Knowland rose, offered New Hampshire's Styles Bridges instead, called for yeas and nays on his amendment-the time-honored way of finding out whether the Senate will organize as Republican or Democratic...
...Senate's famed Rule XXII and its built-in right of filibuster. Not only did they have the Southern conservative Democrats to contend with; some conservative Republicans and Northern Democrats feared civil rights less than they did a rule change. As the fight readied, Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and Minority Leader Bill Knowland got together with opposing forces, set up a schedule that provided three hours for each side to make a record for the folks back home. Everybody knew-or thought he knew-how it would...
Above all else, Knowland brings to his leadership post an absolute, unflinching integrity that rises above politics. It inspires faith in his motives and gives weight to his words. Says Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson: "Any time Bill Knowland tells you something, you can believe it." In 1949 Knowland voted against the confirmation of Dean Acheson as Secretary of State in the Truman Administration, and he was the leading Senate critic of Acheson's Far Eastern policies. But he did not hesitate to stand on the Senate floor and pay tribute to Acheson's handling of the Japanese...