Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...achieve his goals will require every one of Charlie Halleck's gut-fighting talents. "Once you are in a war," he says, "the only thing to do is win it." To Indiana Republican Halleck, after his years of frustration, politics is the greatest, toughest war of all. He intends...
...Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson had suffered weeks of silence while being criticized by a handful of liberal Democrats who accused him, on one hand, of one-man rule, and, on another hand, of failing to organize his sprawling majority (64-34) for an across-the-board assault on the Republican Administration's policies. Finally, last week, Johnson took his tongue out of the cheek he had been turning. "This one-man rule stuff is a myth," cried he on the Senate floor. "It does not take much courage, I may say, to make the leadership a punching...
...demanding Democratic policy meetings. Said Proxmire: "I challenge Senators to tell us what our policy is on the budget, what our policy is on interest rates, what our policy is on taxation, or what our policy is on almost any issue. No one can tell me." While Republican Leader Everett Dirksen gleefully yielded five minutes of his own allotted floor time so that the Democratic squabble could continue, Johnson scoffed at his critics. Asked he: "Do they expect a fairy godmother or a wet nurse to get a majority to deliver into their hands...
Among unskilled workers, where the Republican Party had no place to go but up, the G.O.P. has managed to go down since Eisenhower's presidential-election year...
...greatest political contradiction of the 1950s lies in the continued top-drawer popularity of President Eisenhower and the sad-sag standing of his Republican Party. Last week the Gallup poll, just finished with a survey showing the G.O.P. at an alltime low of 41% (TIME, June 1), broke down the results into job groups. The answers were enough to furrow any Republican brow, including Dwight Eisenhower's. They showed that the G.O.P. not only has failed to make significant inroads in groups where it was weakest, but has suffered disastrously in groups it must win strongly...