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Republicans on the committee (Hicken-looper, Millikin, Knowland and Bricker) in voting...
With a Little "S." But Taft and others were sure there were. Colorado's bald-domed Eugene Millikin thought he had flushed a booger out: there was no time limit to Point Four...
...will be so involved in it that we will never be able to terminate it," argued Millikin. "We will have such big payrolls, so many vested interests, so many clerks . . . lawyers . . . consultants . . . commissions . . . joint commissions, that there will be no way in God's world of getting rid of it. The Senator knows that," he mimicked Connally...
Vice President Barkley had to order the packed galleries to refrain from demonstrations. Connally hoped sarcastically that the order did not apply to Senator Millikin-"because his physical exertions here are so attractive as to obliterate completely his intellectual achievements." Connally took one last swing at his opposition. The Republicans were trying to kill the whole foreign-aid bill by making an issue of Point Four, he cried. Taft's arguments were an example of statesmanship "with a little 's.' " As for Donnell, Connally scoffed, he would not be against Point Four after November. "As soon...
Connally plumped down and listened gloweringly while Millikin closed the debate. When Millikin finished, crossed over and patted him on the back, Connally impatiently brushed the Colorado Senator away, bit viciously into his ragged cigar. Then came the vote: 47 for the conference report, which included the whole foreign aid bill; 27 against. The vote was a triumph for Connally. Both houses still had to appropriate the money for the somewhat bedraggled, somewhat less than bold, but apparently boogerless Point Four...