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Spending & Saving. Besides making speeches, Congress worked hard. Without changing a word, the House Foreign Affairs Committee rushed through the Senate's bill authorizing $1,222,500,000 for second-year military assistance to foreign nations ("Woefully inadequate," declared Mississippi's Senator James O. Eastland with post-Korean...
Two mornings later, Senate Majority Leader Scott Lucas was called at home at 8 o'clock by a summons to an11 a.m. White House conference. In the Cabinet room he found the same gathering of congressional leaders and Cabinet members who had listened to the President's statement...
In the Senate, Missouri's white-haired James Kem interrupted Majority Leader Scott Lucas as he was reading the White House text. He wanted to know if it meant that the President "arrogates to himself the power to declare war?" Lucas said the Senator could figure it out for...
"I don't want to get in a debate," Lucas added, "but I can show . . . some 126 times in history when the President has ordered the Navy or Army to do something, to take action, as Commander in Chief." California's big Bill Knowland interrupted from his back...
Roused by angry, sputtering cables from home, Washington's coffee-country ambassadors rushed into action. In short order they had Senate Majority Leader Scott Lucas, a member of the subcommittee, declaring that he had never attended a meeting and didn't go along with the report at all...