Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate's new Rule XXII was the personal product of Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson. As such, it represented a middle way between the Senate's Southerners, who hold with the idea of limitless debate, and Senate liberals, who would impose cloture at the drop of a drawl. The Johnson-sponsored rule will...
...skillfully did Lyndon Johnson handle his fight for his own version of Rule XXII that the final 72-22 vote left only the extreme diehards of both the liberal and Southern sides in opposition. Thus such liberals as New York Republican Jacob Javits arid Illinois Democrat Paul Douglas found themselves isolated with such bitter-end Southerners as South Carolina's Strom Thurmond and Mississippi's James Eastland...
...This outmoded policy has caused many bad relations among the local press, and so we are changing," Johnson said. "My job is to create good public relations, you know," he added with a chuckle...
Female members of the sportswriting profession will be admitted into the Stadium press box next season for the first time, Q. Henry Johnson, sports publicity director, said yesterday. "This Radcliffe penetration into everything else has finally hit us, I'm afraid," Johnson said...
...witnesses Schlesinger calls in, two of those most fascinated by the President were also among the most acute. Said Hugh Johnson: "[He succeeded] not as a master of planning or knowledge, but as a master of dexterity." And Artist Peggy Bacon, in an ironic comment on his look, said: "Clever as hell but so innocent . . . a grand old actor...