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...hustle a little. Promising a juicy committee assignment here, collecting an IOU there. Bridges knew just what Dirksen's margin would be (20-14) well before caucus time. By then he had another problem: such G.O.P. conservatives as Iowa's Bourke Hickenlooper, Kansas' Andy Schoeppel and Nebraska's Roman Hruska. angry over Cooper's refusal to surrender, plotted a surprise scheme to elect South Dakota's Karl Mundt to be party whip instead of California's Tommy Kuchel-thus take back the one top party post (out of four) that Bridges had offered...
Echoing the growing sentiments of many gloomy Midwestern Republicans who are muttering in their bier, Kansas' Republican Senator Andy Schoeppel -who is also chairman of the Senate Republican Campaign Committee-suggested to his party brethren on a TV show that they should steer clear of President Eisenhower and his program if they want to be re-elected in November...
Back came Ike at his press conference last week to remind Schoeppel and his fellow mavericks that more people voted for a victorious Republican President in 1956 than ever before. Apart from proving that presidential support is anything but a handicap, Ike went on to spread the handwriting on the wall in big enough letters for even the most shortsighted GOPoliticians to read. Said he: "We must help to build up countries ... if the tide of Communism is to be checked. We must ... be watchful of the economy. Those are the big things I believe in and ... I would refuse...
...Hoegh, Kansas' Fred Hall, Nebraska's Victor E. Anderson and South Dakota's Joe Foss) got an appointment for this week at the White House to urge a signature. The 15 Republican Senators who voted for the bill, led by Kansas' Andrew Schoeppel, also wanted to present their case directly to the President. For the most part, the argument of these Republicans was that, politically and economically, a bad bill was better than none...
...Chair Votes Aye." On the second key vote, to fix the support level on wheat, pressures from the stubbles cut hard into the Administration's ranks. Six farm belt Republicans (Colorado's Allott, Kansas' Carlson and Schoeppel, Nebraska's Curtis and Hruska, Wisconsin's Wiley) who had voted for flexible supports on the other basic crops, ran for cover and plumped for rigid props under wheat. Five Senators (Democrats Byrd of Virginia, Neely...