Word: mccormack
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rusk, Vice President Hubert Humphrey ranged from Minnesota to California and back to Washington, where he decried the "notes of acrimony, the acid quality heard today on our objectives." He said that "the war would be shortened considerably if Americans showed their sense of purpose." House Speaker John McCormack warned as well that further divisiveness over Viet Nam would only prolong the war. If he were guilty of giving such comfort, McCormack added, "my conscience would disturb me the rest of my life...
...some listeners, Irish folk music suggests a vista of the Wee Folk prancing in a Donegal sunrise, described in the sad sweet tones of John McCormack. But Ireland is currently in the middle of a folk-music craze similar to the one that swept the U.S. in 1963, and Macushla's blue eyes would turn glassy at the sound of it all. The undisputed leaders of the revolution are The Dubliners, five bearded, brawling musical assailants whose style is just about as far removed from the McCormack idiom as Sgt. Pepper is from The Chocolate Soldier...
Telling the President. On the House floor, Bow introduced his proposal as an amendment to a routine financing resolution necessary to authorize normal spending by the majority of departments for which formal appropriations are still pending. House Speaker John McCormack quashed the amendment as irrelevant. The Republican riposte was to move that the financing resolution be sent back to committee. "We are going to tell the President," declared Minority Leader Gerald Ford, "to make reductions at the demand of Congress. This is what we should do as a legislative body." Majority Leader Carl Albert scurried about the floor trying...
...eleventh-hour effort to save the President's $3.37 billion foreign aid bill from its knife-wielding critics, House Speaker John McCormack took to the floor last week to plead the Administration's case. "This is the time when we should continue with strength," he urged. "This is not a time for us to evidence weakness...
...letter, addressed to the Senate through Vice President Humphrey and to the House of Representatives through Speaker John McCormack, was his special-delivery rebuttal to charges that South Viet Nam's presidential elections, which are scheduled for next week, have been rigged. As further proof of his good faith, Ky invited President Johnson to send some observers to South Viet Nam to witness the election process at firsthand. More than willing, Johnson announced at midweek that 20 Americans had been invited to go. The group includes six Senators and Governors, plus an assortment of mayors, labor and civil rights...