Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jack Kennedy is the answer to slick Dick Nixon, who will almost certainly be the Republican candidate. It's only a matter of time now until Kennedy's enemies begin circulating the stories about building a tunnel to the Vatican or bringing the Pope to Washington, but Jack's religion makes no difference to me-he gets my vote...
...program, as compared with $3.4 billion in new and re-appropriated funds voted for this fiscal year. When James H. Smith Jr., new head of the International Cooperation Administration, began lecturing the leaders about the importance of his program, Massachusetts' Democratic Representative John McCormack whispered to Massachusetts' Republican Senator Leverett Saltonstall: "Another one of your Harvard boys, huh, Lev?" Hard-working Jim Smith, Harvard '31, left the room shortly afterward with a worried look...
Dose of Urgency. When it came time next day to present domestic proposals to Republican leaders, the only Cabinet member with a ready-to-deliver program was Labor Secretary James Mitchell (see LABOR). Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield renewed his pitch for postal rate increases. Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Marion Folsom promised to develop some sort of plan to improve U.S. scientific training (significantly, Folsom said nothing whatever about the Administration's last school construction program, which was killed in the House). Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson talked about saving $500 million by eliminating the acreage reserve section...
Democrat Adlai Stevenson's brief trip through the Republican State Department was marked with good intentions on both sides. But the final outcome, whoever was at fault, could hardly contribute to the success of the NATO conference. No sooner had Stevenson issued his refusal than NATO observers in Europe, figuring he was trying to avoid again being associated with failure, began reading into it a sign that U.S. expectations for the Paris sessions were gloomy...
...Illinois' grey-maned, smooth-talking Everett McKinley ("The Wizard of Ooze") Dirksen, 61, is generally expected to become Senate Republican leader when William Fife Knowland goes off at session's end to run for governor of California. Even Dwight Eisenhower, who always before made it his practice to steer clear of Senate internal affairs, is reminding G.O.P. Senators that Dirksen would serve their purposes better in the long run than such liberal Republicans as New York's Jacob Javits or New Jersey's Clifford Case. Best guess on who persuaded Ike to plead Dirksen...