Word: mcnamara
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even some of Johnson's steadiest fellow Senators are uneasy: word leaked out last week that Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy had joined Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, Pennsylvania's Joe Clark, Michigan's Pat McNamara and Illinois' Paul Douglas in a quiet move last month to draw up their own legislative program -a move that Johnson nipped by incorporating some of their suggestions into the official party program...
...teach Laotians how to operate the machinery. But the engineers arrived to find that, without Washington's knowledge, the local ICA mission had arranged for a Bangkok company, Universal Construction Co., to handle the job. One explanation emerged in testimony last week before a House subcommittee; Edward T. McNamara, husky ICA public-works officer in Laos from 1955 to 1957, admitted receiving stock and cash amounting to more than $12,000 from Universal "for assistance rendered by me in establishment of the contract...
...also developed in testimony that McNamara and another former ICA official, William E. Kirby, accepted substantial favors in 1957 from a Hong Kong transportation firm that got a $275,000 contract to supply ferryboats for a transport system across the Mekong River, between Thailand and Laos. Kirby later quit ICA and took a job with the company. Until Congress took notice, ICA headquarters in Washington seemed almost indifferent to the shenanigans in Laos, and slow to investigate thoroughly. Representative Porter Hardy Jr. of Virginia, chairman of the subcommittee, last week indignantly suggested abolition of ICA altogether, and a fresh start...
Governor Furcolo advised Mayor Thomas McNamara that he had conferred in Washington with Richard L. Steiner, Urban Renewal Commissioner of the Home and Housing Finance Authority, who agreed to release the funds which have been frozen since April 1. Steiner also agreed to extend the Oct. 4 deadline previously set for preliminary plans, thus providing further opportunity for Cambridge to receive Inner Belt Route funds...
...Democratic policy decisions, and the attacks had brought Proxmire more mail than anything else he had ever done. Oregon's Wayne Morse, traveling in Wisconsin, made the papers with a complaint that Johnson was a "Charlie McCarthy in a political ventriloquist act." Michigan's unemployment-harassed Pat McNamara, whose Senate achievements have hardly been worth a stick of type, squawked at Johnson for blocking liberal Democratic attempts to broaden unemployment compensation. Pennsylvania's Joe Clark dashed off his second "Dear Lyndon" letter proposing that liberals have more say in policymaking. And even back in Texas, the liberal...