Word: prioleau
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Shrewd, good-humored James Prioleau Richards, special ambassador and onetime (1933-56) South Carolina Congressman, charged by the President with explaining the Eisenhower Doctrine to the Mideast governments, got a sudden change in signals last week. While Richards was in Greece, the word came through from the White House: Come Home...
...Addis Ababa is an unlikely place to find a man who retired to a South Carolina farm this year to spend the rest of his life "fishing and hunting, and lying in the sun, and watching my cows eat grass." But to Addis Ababa last week journeyed James Prioleau ("Dick") Richards of Heath Springs, S.C. A longtime (1933-56) Congressman, Democrat Richards, 62, had dutifully postponed his fishing and cow watching to undertake, at President Eisenhower's request, a mission as vital to the success of U.S. foreign policy as any since the Korean...
...Reversing the flow of Middle East traffic, President Eisenhower last week picked former House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman James Prioleau Richards, 62, as a $20,000-a-year special assistant, gave him the chairmanship of a special U.S. mission to explain Eisenhower foreign policy to Middle Eastern nations. South Carolinian Richards, who retired from Congress last week after 23 years in the House, has a formidable reputation on Capitol Hill, at the White House and abroad: last year he led a successful fight to trim $1 billion from the foreign aid bill, repeatedly called on the Administration to produce...
While urgently advocating a full measure of foreign aid, the President insisted that he meant nothing personal by his remarks. He looked directly across the table at South Carolina's courtly Democratic Representative James Prioleau Richards, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee and, despite his record of support for the Eisenhower foreign policy, the leader of this year's drive for foreign-aid reduction. There was a moment of awkward silence, broken by Speaker Sam Rayburn. Said Mr. Sam: "I love Dick Richards. This time he's wrong and I will oppose him-but I still love...
After 23 years in Congress, South Carolina's tall, grey-thatched James Prioleau Richards, 61, looks longingly towards the end of the year, when he will relinquish his House seat, go back to his 500-acre cattle farm at Heath Springs (pop. 700), there "lie down on my back and look up at the moon and wonder what's up there." Last week, while the State Department gasped and the Defense Department groaned, Dick Richards decided the Administration was reaching for that same moon and asking too many sixpence in foreign aid next year...