Word: whip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since the floor manager for foreign aid is routinely a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, Fulbright's move left the Administration in some thing of a quandary. Democratic Whip Russell Long, an 8½-year member of the committee, is an outspoken critic of the entire foreign aid program. So is Montana's Mike Mansfield, the Democratic floor leader. So is Oregon Democrat Wayne Morse. Alabama's John Sparkman, next in seniority to Fulbright, was reluctant as any to take on the task. Only after much cajoling did he finally agree to accept, even while warning...
...What a pair we've got now! An ineffectual Senate majority leader and a part-time Democrat as Senate majority whip. Long suddenly observes that the Civil War is over, and that we live in a "changing world" where "things move." He'd be great at forecasting trends...
Never High Noon. "A painters life is determined by daylight," says Hurd, who knocks back an unvarying breakfast of eggnog, toast and coffee at sunup, then goes riding across the juniper-knobby hills. He may dismount, whip out a tiny watercolor set and sketch a bit of his domain. These glimpses are pulled together in his studio, where Hurd toils in the meticulous technique of egg tempera. The results, recently on view at Fort Worth's Amon Carter Museum of Western Art and opening last week in San Francisco's California Palace of the Legion of Honor...
...ways of the House," he says. And he is so "sot" that he works as hard at it as if he were still the whip, making it his business to "learn every member." Though Albert seems unassuming and mild-tempered, he is capable of using cold power plays. Last year, when Johnson was pressing heavily to get his anti-poverty bill through the House, Albert found many members reluctant to vote for it. He found out which public works projects were pending in districts of some recalcitrant partymen, informed the two committee chairmen dealing with public works, and added pointedly...
Albert's technique was low pressure and easygoing. "You get criticized for not cracking the whip," he says, "but it doesn't make sense, for example, to make enemies that will lose you the farm bill to get the poverty bill, when you can get both." When Rayburn died in 1961 and John McCormack became Speaker, Carl Albert easily won the majority leader...