Word: watchdogged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rule of Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, and advocated new appropriations that would have added an estimated $23 billion annually to the federal budget. Now, in the current session, Proxmire has inexplicably become an economic conservative. Most of his efforts have been to trim back appropriations. "He's a watchdog of the Treasury now." marvels one Wisconsin colleague. Counters Proxmire: "I've felt this way for a long time...
...nation with a record gross national product of $515 billion; as the fiscal housekeeper for the U.S. Government, Dillon works within the roomy confines of the largest peacetime budget in history-$87.7 billion. But unlike most of his Treasury Department predecessors, Dillon does not consider himself simply a watchdog of the taxpayer's dollar. "He believes in good housekeeping," says a Treasury staffer, "not just to admire the house, but in order to utilize it.'' To Dillon, the U.S. economy is a dynamic weapon in the cold war, an arsenal of dollars that must be strategically employed...
Still pursued with vigor is the crackdown on quack remedies, now under the Department of Investigation. This office does original investigations, cooperates with federal watchdog agencies, and often provides the evidence to get convictions...
Though Dr. Larson had been active in arranging scientific programs for his district society, it was less ambition than recruitment that started him on the way to A.M.A. leadership. A senior partner in Quain & Ramstad was the state medical society's legislative watchdog. When he retired, he put the arm on Larson. "I volunteered by means of appointment," says Larson. In the Bismarck statehouse, Dr. Larson learned the bitter way about politics: the M.D.s took a crushing defeat when they tried to keep out osteopaths and chiropractors by legislation...
...return to active duty with the title of Military Representative of the President. Taylor, who in the wake of the Cuban fiasco recently completed a top-secret study of U.S. cold war capacities, will keep watch on military planning for world crises, serve as the White House's watchdog on the work of the Central Intelligence Agency. A brainy, courageous combat warrior, but not much of a team player, Taylor is likely to get a tepid "welcome back" as far as the Pentagon is concerned. Many top military thinkers suspect that Army Man Taylor-an ardent believer in strong...