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Sure enough, the Socialists, after a parliamentary caucus, refused to join the grand coalition. After conferring with such close cronies as Minister Without Portfolio Heinrich Krone, Konrad Adenauer listened to the news with stony-faced indifference, and seemed bone-tired as he bowed to the inevitable. Next morning the deputies of his party were hastily assembled. Floor Leader Heinrich von Brentano announced that Adenauer had, in effect, agreed to one of the key Free Democratic conditions: he would step down as Chancellor next fall. Brentano then drew cheers by adding that Vice Chancellor Ludwig Erhard would be included...
...next Cabinet seemed rather fine, but it was at least acceptable to everyone, including Strauss. Fresh from his tour of the Bavarian boondocks, where he was campaigning to help his party in this week's state elections, Strauss showed up in Bonn for a stormy party caucus. Then he announced his resignation from the Cabinet...
...article gives the general impression that the principle purpose of poll is the furtherance of some grand intrigue against the NSA. Neither the local nor national organization of Young Americans for Freedom has any connection whatever with the poll. Nor does the CRNSO, the YRNF College Caucus, or any other conservative national organization concerned with NSA. David L. Morton...
...every denizen of the U.S. Capitol knows, legislative history is sometimes made over a friendly bipartisan glass of bourbon or Scotch. The convivial sessions in Charlie Halleck's "Clinic" or Lyndon Johnson's princely rumpus room can be as important as any committee hearing or party caucus. Even House Speaker John McCormack, a teetotaler, has decided as a matter of legislative policy to continue the gently liquid "Board of Education" meetings held by Sam Rayburn and earlier Speakers...
...aircraft and behind me, but I don't really know." After a desperate struggle. Powers managed to bail out of his U2. His treatment by his Russian captors, he said, had been "much better than I expected." He won applause from the spectators in the packed Senate caucus room when he said: "There was one thing that I always remembered while I was there, and that was that I am an American." Powers left the hearing room exonerated by the committee of any misconduct...