Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...staffers, who had expected the chief, once he really started fighting, to send his opponents reeling. To some, the prospect of changing many minds on foreign aid ("the global dole") looked equally gloomy. Only one day before last week's speech, New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, ranking Republican on the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, told a businessmen's cut-that-budget rally in Chicago that he was "fed up with global do-gooders who want to see us spend the hard-earned tax dollars of American citizens in the support of a worldwide welfare state...
...more to lose than Vice President Richard Milhous Nixon. No one could hang out a better excuse for sidestepping the issue. But rather than dodge, Nixon has dived head-on into the battle, and in the process has been more than willing to cut loose whatever conservative Republican ties he had. Waiting to pick up what Nixon casts off is a conservative champion named William Fife Knowland, the Old Guard's candidate for President in 1960. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Nixon on the Line and Knowland at the Ready...
...delighted" with the message. House Speaker Sam Rayburn (who had brushed off Ike's State of the Union message last January as "one of those kind-of-usual things") called it "great," volunteered that he was going to back "a very generous appropriation" for foreign aid. Indiana Republican Homer Capehart, who has voted against foreign aid for ten years, called the speech "highly gratifying"-and promised to vote in favor of the President's program. New York Republican Jacob Javits, a staunch budget defender through the battle, reported that his mail was running 10 to 1 in Eisenhower...
...press conference the President got off a warning to G.O.P. foot-draggers. In backing Republican candidates in 1958, he said, he would show a lot more "enthusiasm" for "people that stand with me" than for "those that stand against me." This was a big turnabout from the week before when he had said, in effect, that Old Guard Republicans could snipe at his programs and still be sure of the same kind of boost from him at election time as his loyal supporters...
...week's end, in a telephone address to a regional conference of Republican leaders in Trenton, N.J., Ike called for legislation giving the President the power to veto individual items in appropriations bills as "one simple way to save a lot of money"-a thrust at congressional budget-cutters who favor economy on everything except pork-barrel projects for the voters back home...