Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...PHYLLIS JOHNSON DAVENPORT Williamsburg...
...veto was a body-shaking blow to Texas' Lyndon Johnson, Senate majority leader, and Sam Rayburn, House majority leader, who had used up much of their credit with congressional Democrats by pushing the gas bill through-and could never dream of mustering the votes to override. Because the bill had been managed by Democrats, Ike's veto was sure to dull the Democratic attack on the G.O.P. as the party of "big business.'' Acutely aware of this, Democrats responded by accusing the President of sharp politics: the gas bill veto came not from lofty motives, they...
Gore pushed ahead with his plans while Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson, who had hoped to avoid an all-out gas-lobbying inquiry, was in Texas, resting up at his ranch on the banks of the Pedernales River.* Gore cleared his project with on-the-spot Democratic brass, e.g., Acting Majority Leader Earle Clements and Georgia's Senator Walter George, who had presided over the Case hearings. Then, without waiting for a by-your-leave from Johnson, Gore gave public notice of his plan to make his subcommittee the Senate's searching...
...week's end Coronary Victim Johnson returned to Washington to enter the Bethesda Naval Hospital for a checkup. Doctors reported his progress "has been very satisfactory...
...James Forrestal (18 months), Louis Johnson (18 months), George Marshall (12 months), Robert Lovett (16 months...