4 quotes by Wayne L. Hays (1911-1989),

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Wayne L. Hays

If you can't control these rumheads when you're their candidate, how the hell do you expect to control them if you become President?

McGovern partisans were hostile to the Congressman in his own home district:

Wayne L. Hays

[President Dwight D.] Eisenhower had been around generals enough to know how unbelievably dumb the lot of them are.

Wayne L. Hays

If you'd like to know how the Serbs in my district feel about everything, Mr. President, I can tell you there's not a one of them who wouldn't hang you from the nearest lamppost if they had the chance.

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I don't know what the hell you're doing here telling us how to discharge our business. You were the worst Secretary of HEW the country ever had.

Ex HEW Secretary John Gardner, the founder of the citizens' lobby, Common Cause, was testifying before Hays' committee: Gardner, considered an excellent Secretary by most, was a reformer who was making some suggestions not to Hays’ liking. This quote was Hays’ reposponse to Gardner. Hays was not only a bully but his lack of tact caused the State Departmemt much trouble. See {622348}.

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Wayne L. Hays

Born: May 13, 1911
Died: February 10, 1989
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Biography

Wayne Levere Hays was an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative of Ohio, in the Democratic Party, from 1949 to 1976. He resigned from Congress after a much-publicized sex scandal.

WAYNE L. HAYS

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