Word: vermonter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Best demonstration of the new mood came last week at a pair of presidential breakfasts, one with 13 Senators, the other with 17 Representatives. At the Senate session, Ike sat-fittingly-with Illinois' conservative Everett Dirksen on his right and Vermont's liberal George Aiken on his left. George Aiken praised the President's record, but said wistfully: "If the Democrats had that record, they could elect the next ten Presidents on it. The Democrats are masters of strategy...
...people of tiny Laos received in 1957 some $48 million in U.S. aid-about $9,000,000 more than the U.S. Government disbursed to the three states of Nevada, New Hampshire and Vermont together. For a time last year, it looked seriously as though the Communists were going...
...health reasons, he again explained) to consider a move from his powerful position on the Appropriations Committee to take on the minority leader title. He preferred instead to back Illinois' Everett Dirksen for the job. To crown Dirksen, Bridges had first to put down a stubborn revolt of Vermont's George Aiken and six other Senate liberals (TIME. Jan. 12) lined up behind Kentucky's courtly John Sherman Cooper...
Party Call. The Cabinet squabble has plenty of echoes in other branches of the party. In the Senate, Vermont's George Aiken and his band of 14-or-so liberals are still working behind the scenes-and against the President's wishes-to wrest control of the Republican minority away from the Old Guard (TIME, Dec. 29). The word has been leaked to the papers that Nixon is on the side of the Senate rebels...
...that time the Senate's Eisenhower Republicans agreed that it all seemed confusing. They were about to slate Vermont's Aiken for leader and California's Thomas Kuchel for assistant leader. But with defections such as that of Kentucky's Morton, they could not quite count enough votes. And they were sure to be able to count even fewer for so long as Ike continued to throw his weight toward "unity" behind Senate Republicans who had consistently opposed...