Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show a lack of appreciation of the personal sacrifices the President has made since 1956 when he bowed to Republican demands that he win for them a second term. D. ARTHUR New York City
Give me a Republican President of T.R.'s stature, and I'll quit voting Democratic-as I have in the last five campaigns...
...trade, rushed from the room, set up a telephone command post in a nearby office, alerted Speaker Sam Rayburn, huddled with other Democratic leaders, issued urgent orders for committee staffers to whip up a Democratic tax-cut bill the moment the White House moved. No matter what chips the Republican Administration threw onto the table against recession, the Democratic...
There were a few hysterical Democratic outbursts. House Majority Leader John McCormack cried: "This recession was deliberately planned and put into operation by the Republican Administration." But the general Democratic strategy had been coldly planned and was coldly executed by Senate Leader Lyndon Johnson and "Mister Sam" Rayburn. Its essentials: 1) let the Eisenhower Administration move first on tax cuts; the longer Ike waits, figure Democrats, the more laggard his party will appear; then 2) bump all Republican bets with a whopping Democratic tax slash aimed mostly at relief for middle-and lower-income workers, i.e., most U.S. voters. Meanwhile...
Nervous Kibitzers. The Democratic strategy was successful in upsetting nearly all Republican alignments. Some Old Guardsmen, e.g., New York's Representative Dan Reed, the ranking G.O.P. member of the Ways and Means Committee, and Pennsylvania's Ed Martin, chilly in the past toward the Eisenhower Administration, now found themselves backing Ike in his refusal to push the panic button. Yet many devoted Eisenhower Republicans found themselves nervously eyeing the Administration's play of the hand. Among them: New Jersey's Clifford Case, New York's Jack Javits, and Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper...