Word: leader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Texas' Johnson, the adroit, trend-sensing Senate Majority Leader, started the session by delivering his own "State of the Union" message to fellow Democrats, pushed a liberal-spending, twelve-point program (e.g., "bold" housing program, depressed areas bill) that included several items clearly beyond his legislative role and inside the executive area ("breathe life into the newly created space agency," "a consistent policy for Latin America"). He got off to a fast start on a quicker-than-the-eye maneuver to limit slightly the Senate's filibuster Rule 22, hoppered his own civil rights bill as a necessary...
...veto, but failed in this tactic when Ike refused to compromise on the budget line. Johnson was blamed by labor for swinging key Texas Congressmen to a tough version of the labor reform bill. So by half time, Johnson had picked up a serious new handicap: many a labor leader and many a Northern Democrat have vowed to see that he gets no place on the 1960 ticket...
Bouncing the bill back to the Hill half an hour after it arrived, the President called House Republican Leader Charlie Halleck of Indiana to insist upon another last-ditch stand such as Halleck staged to sustain the previous veto by one vote (TIME, Sept. 14). That upset victory had won Halleck a bottle of presidential Scotch; another, joked the President, would win a second bottle. Halleck swore to do his all, dutifully got off wires and cables to absentees, cracked the G.O.P. whip. But since their support of the first veto, a critical number of his hard-pressed Republicans...
...anything so vast be excellent? It has no leader, no philosopher, no hand on the tiller. Public education is a headless wonder. The problem: to give its body-the citizens-faith and direction. Few men have tried with calmer good sense to work to this end than James Bryant Conant, 66, volunteer Inspector General of U.S. public schools...
...Senate majority leader, Lyndon Johnson-Johnson City High School, Johnson City, Texas...