Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loyalty test the very next morning at his press conference. What was needed, said Harry Truman, was a definition of a Democrat. Democrats, he went on, are those people who support the Democratic platform, which is the law of the Democratic Party. Would he consider votes on Taft-Hartley repeal a test of a true Democrat? He certainly would, replied the President...
...President could count on him for a fair share of his program, excepting, of course, civil rights. When Stennis went down to the White House to push a friend for a U.S. attorneyship, Harry Truman didn't even ask him, Stennis reported, how he intended to vote on Taft-Hartley. With grim significance, Stennis added: "I hope and expect him to appoint this gentleman...
There were already two other major health bills (by Ohio Republican Robert A. Taft and Alabama Democrat Lister Hill) before Congress. Both would pay the premiums of the poor so that they could join such voluntary private health-insurance programs as the Blue Cross which already cover 50 million Americans. Taft's bill also provides federal subsidies for training doctors and building hospitals. Truman's answer to these bills: "Medical care is needed as a right, not as a medical dole." One sign of the trouble the President's bill faces: seven of the 13 members...
...getting everyone angry and cutting my own political throat from ear to ear." The vote proved otherwise. By a vote of 49 to 31, eight Republicans helped 41 Democrats slap down John Bricker's non-segregation amendment. Among the eight Republicans was Ohio's senior Senator Robert Taft. After that, there was only one more major hurdle to take...
Deal on the Floor. Charging in from opposite directions, Ohio's Taft wanted to cut out the $12.5 million "outhouse fund" for submarginal farms, and North Dakota's maverick Republican William Langer wanted to double it. Langer threatened to filibuster all night. As he talked, Democratic leaders huddled near him, occasionally whispering to him. In the end, he sat down assured that he would have his way. Senator Taft snapped angrily: "We all saw the deal made here on the Senate floor. There is no question that the committee bought off the filibuster by agreeing to increase...