Word: linings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first year as first President, George Washington approved 27 laws, made about no appointments, and his budgetmaking amounted to no more than signing a 13-line document prepared in Congress. Thomas Jefferson, whose chores were not much heavier, called the presidency "splendid misery." Yet today, in a typical year, Dwight Eisenhower may sign 750 bills, send 40,000 promotions and appointments to Congress, and take the responsibility for a budget that fills 1,100 small-print pages. Not only is he expected to lead Western diplomacy, guide the nation's domestic affairs and entertain ceremoniously, but he must perform...
...Arizona's Stewart Udall, Democratic leader of the swing group, told Zagri off. "You've got a nerve to go calling my state and telling people I'm voting wrong," he snapped. Zagri brazened it out: ''I'm going to get you in line." Udall exploded as never before in Congress, raked Zagri over until the lobbyist obsequiously agreed that he had voted right. Another Congressman was treated to anonymous threats ("We're going to fix you") on his home and office phones. Oregon's Democratic Edith Green took her own Zagri...
...Treasury with his Phi Beta Kappa key and let the dollars flow over the Depression-parched land. Humphrey's problem is painfully shared by all Democratic liberals. In midsummer 1959, it is growing ever clearer that the Democrats have all but come to the end of the line on the New Deal-born issues that have served them for a quarter-century. And as at no other time since F.D.R.'s day, the best intellects of the Democratic Party are searching for a meaningful role for liberalism in a prospering...
...become joltingly clear to the vintage liberals because of two events: 1) the nation's rapid surge from recession to boom without the big spending promised by the liberals in November, and 2) the failure of the attempts of Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler and the old-line liberals to force the congressional Democrats into a free-spending collision with Ike. Such a collision course, the liberals in Congress agree, would be foolish and unrealistic. Says one Senate liberal: "The Democratic National Committee is like a government in exile. They keep operating the same way even though they...
...propaganda arts, Red China is trying to make itself the Communist model for Latin America-even at Russia's expense. Last week a team of Chinese "journalists" wound up a successful friendship tour through South America in Havana, where a fortnight ago plans were announced for a Communist-line Chinese-language daily for Cuba's 30,000 Chinese.*Radio Peking bragged of the warm welcome the team got from Army Boss Raul Castro. "China had Chiang Kai-shek and Cuba had Batista," the station quoted Raúl. "Mao Tse-tung is one of the most respected figures...