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...when they met at Oxford in 1939; they met again as naval officers in the South Pacific during World War II, and became close friends in Washington in the null when Jack was a freshman Congressman from Massachusetts and White a law clerk for Chief Justice Fred Vinson. ¶In an effort to bring Virginia back into the Democratic fold (in 1952 and 1956 the state went to Eisenhower), Kennedy appointed Charlottesville Lawyer William Battle, 39, son of former Governor John Battle, to direct his Virginia campaign. Bill Battle is another old Navy friend; in 1943 he commanded...
...Question. At week's end the President briefed chairmen and ranking members of Senate and House foreign and military affairs committees, got the sternest questioning of the week. Was it not inconsistent, asked Georgia's sharp-tongued Democrat Carl Vinson, to go ahead with planned manpower cuts in the Army and Marine Corps, given Communist strength in East Germany? Answered Ike: No. The U.S. has enough nuclear and conventional arms on hand...
...taxes; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Dan Reed was a direct descendant of John and Priscilla Alden and, in the Puritan tradition, a self-reliant conservative. Elected to the House in 1918, he was undefeated in 21 consecutive biennial elections, was topped in seniority only by Carl Vinson of Georgia (1914) and Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas (1913). As chairman of Ways and Means when the Republicans took over in 1953. Reed made headlines when he promptly opposed the Eisenhower Administration's plan for a six-months' extension of excess profits taxes. In a rare move...
...have no choice, and I hope there will be no hesitancy," Chairman Carl Vinson of the House Armed Services Committee said recently about extending the draft laws. True to his word, Rep. Vinson hurried the bill through committee after only superficial testimony from Pentagon representatives, had the House pass it, and delivered his package to the Senate, sometimes a more deliberate body...
...House Majority Leader John McCormack insisted on turning over his chairmanship of the exotic new Committee on Space and Astronautics to Louisiana Democrat Overton Brooks. Reason: the move took Brooks, whose abilities are lightly regarded, out of the line of succession to Georgia's aging (75) Carl Vinson as chairman of the powerful House Armed Services Committee. Succeeding Brooks as Vinson's heir apparent: Texas' able Paul Kilday...