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...Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith in 1915, "that Winston hasn't a better sense of proportion ... I don't think that he will ever climb to the top in English politics." If the prophecy was a poor one, the charge was just. Young Churchill, a rough rider in Cuba before Teddy Roosevelt ever got there, author, soldier, hero and cabinet minister all before he reached the age of 40, never did get the knack of seeing things from the narrow perspective of lesser men. Where they saw despair, he saw hope; where they saw defeat, he saw challenge...
Even while Acheson was testifying before a Senate committee, Republicans in the House were hunting him with a legislative ax. The plan, an old one, was to cut him down with a rider attached to the State, Commerce, Justice and Judiciary appropriation bill. The rider provided that no money in the appropriation could be paid to the head of a" department who, in the past five years, had been with a firm which acted for a foreign government. Though it named no names, it was directed solely at Dean Acheson, whose former Washington law firm (Covington & Burling) has represented...
Most Republicans, though they thought little of Acheson, thought even less of the idea; only a few more than half attended a caucus to discuss it, and of those who did show up, 33 voted against it. But the rider was dragged on to the floor and furiously debated. Democrats belabored it. No one could say much for it, and one Republican -California's Donald Jackson-had some pointed remarks to make against it. He would gladly vote for impeaching Acheson, he indicated. But the rider was "a trial by attainder . . . which says, in effect, that no man with...
...rider went down by 171 to 81, with two Dixiecrats *joining the Republicans in voting for it. The man with the mustache still...
Getting her down the mountain next day was a business. A rider tried to carry her on a pillow but his arms went numb with the strain. So the rest of the way they carried her on the stretcher. They stopped twice to give her more plasma and sedatives...