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They had been running school construction and general
aid bills up there; they had been running all manner of manpower
programs and whatnot through the Congress, migratory worker bills
only to have them die on one side or the other, or by Presidential
veto
- on the top of his head.
He voted pretty strongly Democratic on all occasions.
I rarely can remember
any occasion where you'd find him giving aid and comfort to the political
opposition.
And he was good at that.
I mean, he'd take the floor and in
a few
- position.
We lost that vote by a tie vote, forty-two to forty-two, with seven abstentions. It's
interesting that a great number of the forty-two nations that opposed us on this have
probably as their mainstay financially our foreign aid programs. This did
- high Treasury officials,
Office of Education officials, usually catalyzed by Douglass Cater, and
consisting of the people I've mentioned plus representatives of the American
Bankers Association, United Student Aid Fund, various state loan guarantee
- it, except that one or two nations
offered to vote with us only if they were given what, in effect, would have been
commitments tantamount to a bribe in terms of aid or something like that, and Foster
Dulles refused to consider that, so we lost their votes