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...would be difficult to find two men more diverse in their approach. Laird, a kinetic, combative Midwesterner, testified before the Senate's Foreign Relations subcommittee on disarmament the week after he returned from his first tour of Viet Nam as Defense Secretary. As an eight-term Congressman from Wisconsin, he was used to committee hearings, and he knew how to make his point in them. During vigorous questioning, he stood his ground firmly. Rogers, a former Attorney General and ever the coolly prepared advocate, showed a reasoned, refreshingly pliant approach to questions that Laird handled with brusque assurance...
...strangers to Washington. Stans served as Eisenhower's budget director from 1958 to 1960. Finch was executive secretary to California Congressman Norris Poulson in the late 1940s, and administrative assistant to Vice President Nixon a decade later. Melvin Laird, the incoming Secretary of Defense, has been an eight-term Congressman from Wisconsin, and has become a highly influential Republican in the House. Secretary of State-designate William Rogers was Eisenhower's last Attorney General; during the Kennedy and Johnson years, he kept a handsome house in Bethesda, Md., and worked both in New York and Washington...
...Neill is pledged by law to McCarthy for the first ballot at the Democratic National Convention because of the Minnesota Democrat's victory in the April Massachusetts presidential primary. The Bay State Congressman, a member of the powerful House Rules Committee and an eight-term incumbent, is the first major Massachusetts Democratic office-holder to endorse McCarthy...
Though politics is the art of compromise, the bill owes much to the stubbornness of one Congresswoman from St. Louis. Democratic Representative Leonor Sullivan, an eight-term veteran who lost battle after battle to strengthen the measure in committee hearings, carried her lonely but vigorous fight to the floor of the House, finally won with an overwhelming 382-to-4 vote...
Lister Hill was born to his role as the nation's most effective advocate of public health legislation. Son of one of the South's foremost physicians, the courtly Alabaman was named after the English surgeon Joseph Lister. After entering the Senate in 1938, the eight-term Congressman focused his energies on medical problems. As a member and since 1955 chairman of the Labor and Public Welfare Committee, he helped forge the nation's public health programs, most notably through the Hill-Burton Act, which has provided federal funds for 8,000 hospitals and health clinics. Last...