Word: frelinghuysen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...than half (47) of the House's big freshman class trooped into the Library of Congress' Coolidge Auditorium to attend a new institution: a school for Congressmen, bipartisan brainchild of such considerate upperclassmen as Maine's Democrat Frank Coffin and New Jersey's Republican Peter Frelinghuysen. In the first class, frosh heard New York Timesman James ("Scotty") Reston tell them how to make news. Senator Hugh Scott, Pennsylvania Republican, and Senator Eugene McCarthy, Minnesota Democrat, both lately risen from the Lower House to the Continuing Body, rubbed in a delicate point by scheduling a discussion this...
...What's the Date?" So engrossed was Ike in elaborating his "musts" that he forgot the time. At 9 o'clock one of the Congressmen broke in to remind him of his Cabinet meeting. As the party broke up. New Jersey's Peter Frelinghuysen asked the President to autograph his place card. "What's the date?" asked Ike. "June 6," said somebody. "Oh," mused the onetime Allied Commander in Chief, reaching...
...there a new political conservatism loose in the land? Few Congressmen-except the Old Guard Republicans-thought so. Said New Jersey's Congressman Peter Frelinghuysen, 41, Eisenhower Republican: "The Congress is restive, frustrated. The interesting thing is to watch what kind of force rushes in to fill this political vacuum...
...bitterly lamented "my crying inability to adapt myself to my time and to become a moneymaker" and wrote passable poetry which no one read, died when the boy was only seven. His mother was, in Historian Henry Adams' description, "another survival of rare American stock: Davis of Plymouth, Frelinghuysen of New Jersey, Griswold of Connecticut, with the usual leash of Senators, Cabinet officers, and other such ornaments in her ancestry." Inevitably, from her and his grandfather, young Cabot acquired a sense of membership in a class which assumed that public service was a duty. Grandfather Lodge was the scholar...