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Just who talked to Mike Monroney is his secret, but it is an open secret on Capitol Hill that the fellow Texans, House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, have made a deliberate new policy decision: the congressional leadership sees no profit in fighting President Eisenhower'...
¶The House voted to raise the temporary limit on the national debt to $295 billion-precisely what Ike had requested.
Committed to the new conservatism and convinced that it is what the public wants, Lyndon Johnson thinks he can foresee the next step. The country, he implies, wants a moderate President to go with the moderate legislative program next year. A Democratic moderate. Obviously, somebody like Lyndon Johnson.
Said Ohio's burly Frank Lausche, with a nod to Arkansan Bill Fulbright, committee chairman, and sworn enemy of noncareer diplomats: "I'm sure you are the type of man that lies dear and close to the heart of what Senator Fulbright feels should be a good ambassador...
It was only after Thompson pulled into the basement-ramp area of the courthouse at Baton Rouge that Earl Long realized that he had been tricked. "What's going on?" he cried. Thompson told him about the commitment papers. "Goddam! Goddam you all," screamed Earl. "You all are doing...