Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President has been getting some bad advice from his staff, bad that is if he is sincerely concerned with putting through his program, rather than with partisan politics. His advisory staff is dominated by the Dewey-Brownell wing of the party which, while touted as the "liberal" wing, has in recent months not lived up to this expectation. Such men as Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams and Brownell have seemingly convinced the President that McCarthy is too valuable an asset to the Republican party, particularly in light of the coming November Congressional elections, for Eisenhower to risk a split with...
This may be good advice in terms of partisan politics, but for Eisenhower's program it could mean disaster. For it appears certain that if the elections and particularly the GOP primaries are dominated by the question of Communism, then the people who will be returned to the Senate and House this full will not be dedicated to the Eisenhower program. The President has often needed Democratic votes to push through his program in recent months. He can not afford the election of many more right-wing Republicans obsessed with the single issue of Communist subversion and blind...
Langer won Republican nominations for Senator in 1940 and 1946 over the bitter opposition of the regular North Dakota Republican organization. His support comes from the remnants of Non-Partisan League, a populist organization of which he is a leader. In his feud with home-state Republicans, Langer used to get considerable help from his close political friend, President Truman. He now wants to use his position as head of the Judiciary Committee to force the Republican Administration to give him a tight hold on all federal patronage in North Dakota...
...followers appointed to the federal bench; the Justice Department does not think his men are qualified. Last week Langer blew up again when the Administration announced the nomination of four North Dakota postmasters. Three of the four, as it happens, are Langer followers, Non-Partisan Leaguers. But that was not enough. Langer bawled that he was not consulted in advance about the appointments; merely notified after the fact. His office issued a lordly statement: "Senator Langer says although he is the senior Republican Senator from North Dakota, he has not been consulted by the President . . ." He concluded that the nominations...
...came for Captain Knoke not in air combat, as he had hoped ("If I ram one of the Yanks, I shall be able to take him with me"), but in an automobile crash in Czechoslovakia. Partisan bombs wrecked his staff car, crippled his legs for life. He dragged out the war in convalescence, nursing the tattered logbook that recorded 2,000 flights, 400 combat missions, 52 confirmed kills...