Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Predictably, congressional reaction ranged from sympathetic understanding to outrage. Arkansas' William Fulbright, second-ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, thought that Britain had simply acted because she was weary of waiting for the U.S. to change its "sterile" China policy. Senate Republican Leader William Knowland, unyielding foe of Peking and long twitted as the ''Senator from Formosa," rose on the Senate floor to warn that the British trade might "some day in the not too distant future strengthen Communist China to the point where it can feel it dares to take the risk of taking...
...Republican Chamber of Legislative Horrors (pre-World War II division), nothing quite brings the shivers to a veteran G.O.P. Congressman like the memory of the party vote against the fortification of Guam.* When the Japanese seized Guam, the No-voters had to start explaining, and those who survived have been explaining ever since. Last week, as the Eisenhower Administration's $38 billion defense budget came up for floor action in the House, the Republicans remembered Guam very well-but the Democrats lined themselves up in a party-line vote against the President's defense budget that might haunt...
...found Republican solidarity was partly the result of White House pressure, but mostly the work of House Republican Leader Joe Martin. At Martin's request, Pentagon experts worked over the weekend on the $2.5 billion defense reduction proposed by the House Appropriations Committee. They came back with $308 million (later changed to $313 million) in restorations that they considered absolutely essential to the armed forces. Martin presented the list to the 30-member House Republican Policy Committee, laid the facts on the line in cold political terms. Said he: "If we are going to the voters as a party...
...House votes showed Republicans backing the President and Democrats pushing against him in the touchy field of national defense. That fact was not lost on Senate Democrats, long proud of their defense record, who found themselves liking heavy economy less and less. Therefore, with Republican Leader William Knowland pledging to support defense restorations despite his own budget-cutting hopes, the Senate outlook was increasingly promising. Best prospect: the Senate may go along with the $1.3 billion in "bookkeeping" reductions, but restore the $1.2 billion in muscle cuts from the armed forces...
...first meetings he and Humphrey had understood each other. The President was pleased that, before leaving Washington (probably to take over the board chairmanship of Pittsburgh's National Steel Corp., which he helped found in 1929), Humphrey will see the 1958 budget through Congress. But many an Eisenhower Republican breathed a sigh of relief when the White House announced, well in advance of the fact, that Humphrey's successor will be former Deputy Defense Secretary Robert B. Anderson (see box), who could well become the fiscal symbol of the second Eisenhower Administration...