Word: chamberlain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Polling for Trends. Where each Congressman is allowed one annual Government-paid trip to his home district, Chamberlain made 14 his first year, 18 his second, at a personal cost of $76.34 per trip. Most of all, Chamberlain learned to rely on a system of periodic polls, sending out questionnaires to 150,000 Sixth District voters (each poll costs him $700). "The returns may not be complete," says Chamberlain, "and they certainly are not infallible, but they always show a trend...
...polls convinced Chamberlain that the majority of Sixth District voters was generally in agreement with Eisenhower Administration policy-and he voted that way. Among the most startling trends was one that gives Chamberlain high hopes that the Sixth District's rank-and-file union members will not necessarily blame him for their economic troubles. Seventy-seven percent of the hourly wage earners answering a Chamberlain poll last March said they believed both labor and management should renew then-existing contracts "to avoid possible labor strife...
...Chamberlain's unending efforts to keep in touch with his district, even while attending to the daily legislative and committee work required of the conscientious Congressman, have kept him away from his wife, Charlotte, and their three children (Ellen, 12; Christine, 6; and Charles Jr., 4) more than he likes. But here again Chamberlain has a fine political asset: a wife who understands. Says Charlotte Chamberlain: "Somehow this extraordinary way of living-two homes, two worlds-comes to be taken in stride. The only time I realize that we aren't quite as stable as other people...
Despite a Congressman's $22,500-a-year salary plus expense allowance, the personal expenses of district pulse taking, of meeting and knowing people, have forced the Chamberlains to put a $10,000 mortgage on their East Lansing home. Beyond that, Chamberlain figures he will spend $20,000 before his 1958 campaign is over, and he is raising it with a "Bucks for Chuck" drive, exchanging elephant-outlined cuff links for contributions of more than...
People, One by One. A new congressional campaign, Chamberlain thinks, begins the day an old one ends. "You can't campaign openly that early," Chamberlain says. "It would be like saying 'Merry Christmas' on the Fourth of July. But you think hard about it. You look at an auto plant and tell yourself: 'Next campaign I will be at the gates to meet the workers as they arrive at 7 a.m.' And they will think: 'This guy had to get up as early as I did-he must really mean business...