Word: whips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After nearly four months as U.S. energy chief, William Simon could use any respite that a lifting of the oil embargo would bring. When he stepped in, he was almost universally hailed as the tough decision maker who would finally whip the nation's faltering energy policies into shape. The honeymoon could not last, and it has not; Simon now is getting a barrage of criticism, some of it astonishingly bitter...
...indicated that seven days would not be at all long enough. "This government is not a transient and passing phenomenon," he told the House of Commons in his first visit back as Prime Minister. "We are planning for a year or more ahead. " Bob Mellish, Labor's chief whip, was bolder, declaring: "I shall behave as if we were a government with an enormous majority...
...next night the dinner featured Congressman Leslie Arends, House whip from Illinois, who is also retiring. Again it was soft and pleasant. They watched Friendly Persuasion, an old movie from the book written by Jessamyn West, Nixon's cousin. And still the thought that Nixon might be forced from office, which permeated all of Washington, did not intrude...
...Neill also earned points in the House by supporting the reforms of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970, which made public for the first time votes taken in committees and made on amendments offered on the floor. By steadily playing his own cards right, he rose to become party whip in 1971. Then, in October 1972, an airplane carrying Majority Leader Hale Boggs disappeared while flying across Alaska. In November, with Boggs presumed dead, the Democrats prepared to elect his successor. Before he became a candidate, O'Neill asked permission of Boggs' wife to go ahead...
...President also asked Congress to forget the Emergency Energy Act that got bogged down before the Christmas recess because of disagreement over taxing oil companies' "excess profits." Instead, Nixon wants Congress to whip through a "basic bill" that would make the Administration's fuel-allocation and conservation measures legally binding. Energy Chief William E. Simon is afraid that unless these measures are quickly made mandatory, consumers will slacken their so far successful conservation efforts, particularly if the Arab oil flow resumes. Yet in its present mood of hostility to oil companies, Congress will almost certainly ignore the President...