Word: kuchel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Baloney!" In the Senate, Kuchel early aligned himself with middle-reading Republicans led by Vermont's George Aiken. Now, as his party's whip, he sits in the councils of the G.O.P...
Senate leaders. When it comes to getting his own bills enacted, he may well be the Senate's most influential Republican. Kuchel is just about the favorite Republican Senator of the Democrats who run the Senate. As a result, he has seen about 100 of his own bills approved (most of them provided public works or other federal aid for Cali fornia), although his party has been in control of the Senate during only two of his ten years there...
...Democrats like Kuchel because he is open and honest with them, utterly devoid of partisan ferocity. "There's nothing mean about him," says a high-ranking Democratic Senator. "If he can help you, he will." Says Kuchel of himself: "I try to deal with my colleagues fairly. I try to live up to my word. I don't try parliamentary tricks." One exception, a Democrat with little affection for Kuchel, is Ohio's conservative Frank Lausche, who was once a victim of Kuchel's occasionally earthy humor. Kuchel came onto the Senate floor one day while...
...Pooh-Pooh to You." In the current session Kuchel has emerged as the Senate's most outspoken Republican foe of the radical right. In a floor speech a few weeks ago, he denounced the John Birch Society and other "fright peddlers," as he called them, for spreading tales about United Nations plots to take control of the U.S. with the connivance of the U.S. Government. Right-wing extremists claim to be conservatives, said Kuchel, but they "defile the honorable philosophy of conservatism with that claim." They also claim to be patriots, but they are "unpatriotic and downright un-American...
...Kuchel reveals no indication of wanting to reach beyond the Senate. He is often mentioned as a prospect for the Republican vice-presidential nomination in 1964, but he disclaims any serious interest in it. "I don't want to run for Vice President," he says. "I don't want to be Vice President." He is also uninterested, as of now at least, in taking control of the leaderless, disunited California Republican Party. Says Kuchel: "I'm not cut out for smoke-filled rooms...