Word: pike
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With scarcely any warmup, he promptly went into his weekly political huff. The previous week his target had been Ohio's Robert Taft. Last week it was the Republican opposition to his renomination of Sumner Pike to the Atomic Energy Commission. That opposition seemed to him foolish. He was perfectly aware, he said, that the ground was political; yes, party political; Republican Party political, if you please. It was no surprise to Truman that Colorado's heretic Edwin C. Johnson-a Democrat, of all things-had voted with the Republican Senators against Pike, for Johnson, the President observed...
...often does the Senate ignore the recommendations of one of its own committees. But this week, after a warm flurry of argument, it overturned the majority decision of its atomic energy committee, and voted to approve blunt-spoken Sumner Pike, a Maine Republican, for another term on the Atomic Energy Commission...
...Senate committee summoned Pike himself, cleared reporters out of the room, then left Pike sitting in silence without asking him a single question or telling him why they objected to him. When he left, they turned him down 5-4, with Colorado's Democrat Ed Johnson joining the four
Their explanations were vague. Hickenlooper mumbled that Pike was a "square peg in a round hole," added later that Pike had always been opposed to the H-bomb. "I don't know what their gripe is," Pike declared. "Whatever the reason was, it wasn't stated either directly or by innuendo." Last year, because "we didn't have the dope in front of us as to what we would be getting for what we were spending," he had been doubtful about the H-bomb, he added. But "as the facts came in, my attitude did change...
Administration leaders announced that they would take Pike's nomination to the Senate floor, hoping that the Senate would reverse its own committee-something that happens only rarely...