John Lehman Quotes
Senator, if you vote for us, maybe we could get a battleship into Arizona.
The Navy developed a program to disperse the home bases of the U. S. based fleet. They called it "home porting" which became "home porking" to detractors who accused the navy of spreading out the money in order to curry favor with congress rather than making cost effective military decisions. One opponent of the program was Barry Goldwater, the senior senator from Arizona—a landlocked state:
John F. Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, Quoted on PBS, The Power Game, January 2, 1989
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Many members of his own party opposed some of the President's policies and programs, and party loyalty and discipline were strained:
Senator Estes Kefauver was one of the few Senators who went against the tide of the times and voted against the McCarran Act, a.k.a. The Internal Security Act. Humphrey had voted for it:
Recommending campaign strategy to erstwhile politicians:
For "Politics makes strange bedfellows," see Charles Dudley Warner
Explaining why he dissolved the Parliament:
Then running for reelection as a state legislator.
Hollings who was one of the senior experienced senators was offended by the degree to which the George W. Bush Administration and the Republican leadership had turned to lobbyists to draft legislation and amendments to pending legislation. Lobbyists often have specialized information that members of Congress do not have, so there has been in modern times communications between lobbyists and members of Congress and their staffs. However, during the Bush Presidency the practice reached an extreme where lobbyists would even write the legislative language and give it to the members in whom they had invested by giving them large campaign contributions and many perks. K Street is the fanciest street in Washington DC with some of the most expensive office space. A substantial proportion of the lobbyists have K Street offices, hence the metaphor.
John Francis Lehman Jr. is an American private equity investor and writer who served as Secretary of the Navy (1981–1987) in the Ronald Reagan administration where he promoted the creation of a 600-ship Navy. From 2003 to 2004 he was a member of the 9/11 Commission.
