Behind the Mirrors, the Psychology of Disintegration At Washington;
The book Behind the Mirrors, the Psychology of Disintegration At Washington; was written by author Gilbert Clinton Wallace Here you can read free online of Behind the Mirrors, the Psychology of Disintegration At Washington; book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Behind the Mirrors, the Psychology of Disintegration At Washington; a good or bad book?
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What more threatening spec- tacle for second childhood is there than first child- hood? Suppose Congress were again a lusty and vigor- ous creature with the blood of youth in its veins, how long would Henry Cabot Lodge, aged seventy- two, remain leader of the Senate? Lodge, the iras- cible old man, with worn nerves, who claps his hands for the Senate pages as if they were not of the same flesh and blood with himself, and who would, if he could follow his instincts, clap his hands in the same wa...y to summon the majority Senators, the recluse who is kept alive by old servants who under- stand and anticipate every whim, to enjoy greed- ily the petty distinctions that have come to him late because the Senate itself was more than half dead? And who would be worse scandalized than the ancient committee chairman, some with one foot in the grave? At one time in the first year of Mr. Harding's administration the important chairman- ships in the Senate were disposed thus : Finance, the most powerful committee, Senator Penrose, a dy- ing man; Foreign Relations, Senator Lodge, 72; Interstate Commerce, Senator Cummins, 72, and 157 BEHIND THE MIRRORS broken with illness; Judiciary, Senator Nelson, 79 and living back in the Civil War in which he served as a private; Immigration, Senator Colt, 76.
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