Clear it with Sid! : Sidney R. Yates and fifty years of presidents, pragmatism, and public service /

Clear it with Sid! : Sidney R. Yates and fifty years of presidents, pragmatism, and public service /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Dorf, Michael C., author.
Imprint:	Champaign, IL : University of Illinois Press, [2019]
Description:	xii, 271 pages, 15 pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Yates, Sidney Richard, -- 1909-2000. Yates, Sidney Richard, -- 1909-2000. United States. -- Congress. -- House -- Biography. United States. -- Congress. -- House. Legislators -- United States -- Biography. Legislators. Politics and government. United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989. United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-1993. United States -- Politics and government -- 1993-2001. United States. Biography.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11867088

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Other authors / contributors:	Van Dusen, George, author.
ISBN:	9780252042447 0252042441
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"From 1949 to 1999, Congressman Sidney R. Yates of Illinois served under ten Presidents of the United States and eight Speakers of the House of Representatives. He debated and helped shape many of the major issues which formed America's dominance of the postwar world. In particular, as an Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman, a member of the 'College of Cardinals, ' Yates became the preeminent legislator on the environment, Native American rights, human rights, Israel and anti-Semitism, and the arts and humanities. As Speaker Tip O'Neill would tell congressmen when sensitive policy questions arose, 'Clear it with Sid!' In 'Clear it With Sid, ' Michael C. Dorf and George Van Dusen trace the evolution of Sid Yates, son of a blacksmith from Lithuania, from freshman congressman to venerated elder statesman and recipient of the Presidential Citizens Medal. With unprecedented access to the papers, family, and friends of Yates, they round out the portrait of a man who could be petty and stubborn at times, but who had also found the key to being effective, respected, and able to reach across a violently partisan aisle, demonstrating that even in these hostile times, there are ways for representatives to work together for the public good"--

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Prologue
Part I. The Crusader, 1949-62
1. The Road to Capitol Hill
2. The Class of' 49
3. "Here Comes This Nice, Good-Looking Guy"
4. "The Judgment of Admirals"
Part II. Defeat and Comeback, 1962-74
5. Yates for Senate
6. To the United Nations and Back
7. "This Precious Resource"
Part III. The Chairman, 1975-98
8. America's Committee
9. Three Years of the Culture Wars
10. "The Last Sanhedrin Met in 70 CE"
11. The Final Years
Epilogue
Notes
References
Index
Photographs follow page 69