Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate, adroitly led by Chief Democrat Lyndon Baines Johnson (see below), defied tradition by not only refusing to restore House cuts but cutting even deeper. (One surprising victim: J. Edgar Hoover's almost sacrosanct Federal Bureau of Investigation, clipped some $150,000.) And with the Republican leadership sitting back in amused tolerance, Johnson & Co. turned with special glee on the President's pet program for fighting the propaganda war against Communism, the U.S. Information Agency. The Senate not only accepted the House's $38 million cut in USIA's $144 million request (which Ike publicly called...
Leadership Decried. The Eisenhower Republicans were hurting badly from the budget flap, and they made no secret of the fact that they thought Ike's lack of leadership was to blame. Not only had Democrats and Old Guard Republicans gained strength from the general confusion (headlined the New Rochelle.N.Y. Standard-Star: GOP TELLS IKE TO GO JUMP IN BUDGET LAKE), but Ikemen had nothing of their own to cling to. Reasons: 1) in order to make speeches defending the budget, an Eisenhower Republican had to accept the President's word that it was sound; 2) every time...
...himself added a kind of insult to the Ikemen's political injuries. Asked at his news conference whether he would go over the heads of the budget-cutting Senate Republican leadership-California's Bill Knowland and New Hampshire's Styles Bridges-to work with the Eisenhower Republicans who are fighting for his program, Ike left his hard-pressed Capitol Hill defenders sadly disappointed: "I don't see how it is possible for any President to work with . . . the whole Republican group except through their elected leadership. This doesn't mean that in special cases...
Praise & Blame. Some Ikemen were heartened at week's end by the show of fight in his telephoned address to a seven-state gathering of Midwestern Republican leaders in Cincinnati. For the first time he blamed Democratic control of Congress, for lagging performance on such measures as federal school construction and civil rights. Republicans must win control of Congress, said he, "for it is clear that political responsibility can be definitely fixed only when one party controls both the legislative and executive branches of our Government...
...Republicans are divided on the budget. Again and again, Johnson gleefully pointed to such specimens of Republican budgetary schizophrenia as Treasury Secretary George Humphrey's famed "hair-curling" warning and the businessmen's revolt on the budget...