Word: whip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senate, too, the Democrats staged a relatively minor North-South clash. Louisiana's Russell Long, 46, wanted to replace Vice President-elect Hubert Humphrey as majority whip-even though Huey Long's son has a notable record of anti-Administration votes, including t hose against medicare, aid to education, foreign aid, the nuclear test ban treaty, the Peace Corps and civil rights. Because of past political favors, because the liberals were badly organized-and because the White House carefully did not intervene-Russell Long won out over Rhode Island's John Pastore and Oklahoma's Mike...
...method. It's a good way. I also learned the issues. And I stayed with my party as much as I could. I have been, I think, a real regular Democrat." In 1955, when Tennessee Democrat James Percy Priest decided he didn't want to be party whip again, Rayburn and then Majority Leader John McCormack pored over a list of House Democrats for a replacement. When they hit Albert's name, both said: "That...
Albert approached the job with dogged persistence. His responsibility as whip was to keep track of every Democratic vote on every major issue. Recalled Albert: "When I was whip, I'd get the reports in from the assistant whips. I'd call every doubtful member. I then could go down the list and know where the trouble was-which we could count on, which were absolute losses. Then I'd go to work on the rest of them...
Burning Bush. By the time he reached the Senate in 1948, after a run-off primary that he won by a bitterly disputed margin of 87 votes out of 988,295 cast, Johnson had polished his political talents to a high gloss. He was Democratic whip in two years, minority leader in four. When the G.O.P. lost both houses of Congress in the 1954 midterm election, he became, at 46, the youngest majority leader ever...
...kind of cinema king. He doesn't wear smoked glasses, carry a bull whip and snap orders over his manicurist's shoulder like the major bosses of old. And of course he is not one of the modern independents who incubate their eggs in other people's nests. Wasserman is a corporate president in show business, a modified First National City banker who has wandered through an unusual door, and he has shaped MCA into a trimly efficient manufacturing corporation, ample in size, and self-sufficient, whose net earnings have risen without setback from...