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...President was not alone in lavishing praise on John McCormack. One after another, a dozen of his fellow Democrats rose on the House floor last week to laud the Speaker's virtues. "A kind man, a Christian, a gentleman," intoned Oklahoma's Carl Albert. "No human being has ever been more human," chimed in South Carolina's Mendel Rivers. "When the history of this era is written," apostrophized Louisiana's Hale Boggs, "no name will loom larger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Speaking Out on the Speaker | 1/27/1967 | See Source »

...laud your Essay. At last somebody has defended war as the expedient it can sometimes be in solving international problems. Too many pacifists and bleeding hearts have vilified war in favor of negotiations, when in some cases water, not words, is needed to extinguish fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 1, 1965 | 10/1/1965 | See Source »

...young Senator Johnson had argued that "such a law would necessitate a system of federal police officers such as we have never before seen," and that he hoped "the Senate will never be called upon to entertain seriously any such proposal again." Texas Republican John Tower rose to laud L.B.J.'s ancient statement as "one of the most succinct and pointed arguments that I have ever heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Slicing the Bread | 4/24/1964 | See Source »

...Particularly in an election year, any politically alert Administration is certain to laud its own accomplishments and, in hope that voters will find them irresistible, lament all the things that remain undone. In this sense, the Johnson Administration is certainly politically alert-as evidenced by its Economic Report sent to Congress this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: Lauding & Lamenting | 1/24/1964 | See Source »

...general campaign of November, he "had no stomach for hurling real or fancied charges against the Democrats," and no particular desire to laud Herbert Hoover either. Instead, he praised the memory of Woodrow Wilson, argued for economic reform, and won by 23,000 votes against a Roosevelt landslide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Leader: Everett Dirkson | 9/14/1962 | See Source »

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