Word: richard
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Because Senate rules have always been carried over from session to session, the attack on Rule XXII will come on the first day, soon after Vice President Richard Nixon has gaveled the Senate to order. Then, according to present strategy, New Mexico Democrat Clinton Anderson will move that the Senate take up for consideration adoption of the rules under which it operates...
Humphrey, Javits & Co. would like nothing better than a cloture rule allowing the Senate to cut off debate by a simple majority vote. Against that, Georgia's Richard Russell, strategic leader of the filibuster forces, and Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, even while admitting last week that a change in Rule XXII is probably inevitable, aim at holding it to a near-meaningless minimum. From the battle that will begin next Jan. 7 between those two positions may come a rule allowing Senators to talk lengthily-but not forever...
Checking last spring on the 1960 presidential preferences of Republican voters, the Gallup poll found Vice President Richard Nixon the far-and-away leader, with 64% against only 9% for the runner-up, California's Senator William Knowland. Checking again last week, in the wake of the 1958 elections, the pollsters found a far more imposing Nixon roadblock in New York's Governor-elect Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller. The new listing...
Flying home last week from a postelection South American vacation, New York's Rockefeller flew on to Washington for a meeting of President Eisenhower's Advisory Committee on Government Organization, stayed for a 55-minute talk with Richard Nixon. At talk's end Rockefeller said he and Nixon had agreed that the G.O.P. should develop as many men of national stature as possible and have them available for the 1960 G.O.P. presidential nomination...
...entire Polish nation represents little more than a slight miscalculation in Chinese population statistics for one year." In the U.S. some thoughtful men argue that within a generation the U.S. will be helping bolster Soviet defenses against Communist China. Writing in London's New Statesman, British Socialist M.P. Richard Grossman reports that he came back from a trip through Red China convinced that "Chinese Communism is far the biggest and far the most formidable mass movement in human history''-a movement which "within the next decade" may transfer the center of the world to Peking...