Word: monroney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bear Traps & Wing Flaps. While the report made the casual rounds of 70-odd Capitol committees and agencies, it was Oklahoma's Democratic Senator A. S. (for Aimer Stillwell) "Mike" Monroney, among all his colleagues, who most clearly sensed the challenge and grabbed it. As chairman of the Senate Aviation Subcommittee, Mike Monroney ran the report through his committee and got legislation moving. With single-minded disregard for political pitfalls and bureaucratic bear traps, Monroney thrashed his way through the congressional jungle with expert leadership. One member of his safari: Pete Quesada, whose good World War II friend...