Word: whitely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strong man who, unlike Humphrey, would not consider undercutting the President's program. To help the President sell his program to Congress, there was Major General Wilton B. ("Jerry") Persons, a genial, Scotch-sipping and thoroughly efficient Alabaman who succeeded flinty Sherman Adams as chief of the White House staff. Where Sherman Adams had long been a congressional cuss word, Jerry Persons was a longtime congressional favorite. Where Adams had let the merest handful of visitors get past him to see the President, Persons began opening the door. "This place is becoming a madhouse,'' said one White...
...Capitol Hill itself, there was another new team. Illinois Republican Everett Dirksen succeeded California's obstructionist William Fife Knowland as Senate Republican leader, and Knowland had been as inept a leader as was ever inflicted upon a President. In the House, Indiana's Charles Halleck, with White House blessings, ousted Massachusetts' aging Joe Martin as Minority leader, soon proved himself a whiplashing, gut-fighting leader who would go down the line for the Administration...
...renewed vigor, Ike pitched zestfully into the business of politics. To pleased Congressmen came an increasing number of invitations to stop by the White House for drinks and chats, or to ride with the President in his plane. To Capitol Hill came many a warm letter, thanking legislators for help, that was signed "D.E." Arizona's conservative Republican Senator Barry Goldwater, who alone in the Senate had voted against the relatively mild labor-reform bill sponsored by Massachusetts Democrat John Kennedy, was tickled pink when Ike confided: "If I'd been in the Senate, I'd have...
...guard of honor is formed up and ready for your inspection. Sir." A murmur was running through the crowd: "Oooooooh, the Queen." There stood Elizabeth, pregnant and officially out of sight, yet slim and pretty in a baby blue, three-button suit and a small white straw hat. The royal family whisked the President off to the great castle, then to a picnic tea beside shining Loch Muick. When Elizabeth whispered something in the President's ear, he said: "Oh, wonderful. Wonderful...
HOUSING. Risking a veto, the House passed and sent to the White House a $1 billion housing bill, slimmed down from the $1.4 billion housing bill that the President vetoed last July, but still a lot fatter than he wanted. Ike sent Congress a message bluntly announcing that Housing Bill No. 2 had some "seriously objectionable" features. Some Capitol Hill Republicans predicted that Ike would veto the bill, even though it passed by more than the two-thirds majority needed to override a veto: 283 to 105 in the House, 71 to 24 in the Senate...