Word: republicans
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...reality, the Democrats were hurting because they knew that the President had grabbed a clear Republican tactical advantage by offering his balanced budget. If the Democrats fatten expenses with new appropriations -and Ike has already taken the trouble to hint that he will veto massive Democratic housing and airport legislation programs -they will be held accountable for the resulting deficit. The President has hinted at a tax cut next year if the line is held this year, and House Minority Leader Charlie Halleck has all but promised it; at a time when taxes are climbing at state and local levels...
...would not permit anyone to make me a candidate" for President. Whereupon New Mexico's Senator Clinton Anderson introduced him to the throng as "A man I firmly believe will be the next President of the U.S." Johnson lived up to the billing. Said he, aiming at the Republican line on the budget: "There are two ways to remain fiscally solvent. One is to pull in, shrink back, scrimp and do nothing except sit in a rockin' chair. The other is to stand, produce, work longer and harder." Said he of Dwight Eisenhower: "We are meeting tonight...
...Drawing for office preference with 81 other new Congressmen, New York Republican Seymour Halpern drew No. 82. Not until last week did he finally get a real office, after working for days in a hole in the wall - an 8-ft.-by-12-ft. gap between the circular foyer and the straight outer wall of the Old House Office Building. ¶ More than half (47) of the House's big freshman class trooped into the Library of Congress' Coolidge Auditorium to attend a new institution: a school for Congressmen, bipartisan brainchild of such considerate upperclassmen as Maine...
Others were less enchanted. Republican Styles Bridges skipped the lunch, reported loss of appetite because the "fawning over Mikoyan makes me sick to my stomach...
Those consequences may be considerable. U.S. Judge Johnson, 40, a Republican, inherited the nickname "Straight Edge" from his great-grandfather, Fayette County's first Republican sheriff and a man widely known for his directness and his sharp cutting edge. Frank Johnson, appointed to the federal bench by President Eisenhower in 1955, inherits the traits as well as the name. Says one Alabama lawyer: "If you have a good case, you don't have to worry. The judge will rule with you. If you don't have a case, you don't have to worry either...