The Senate again rejected Warren, 46-39. Since then, only two nominations have been rejected— Lewis Strauss for Secretary of Commerce in 1959 and John Tower for Secretary of Defense in 1989 ...

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In U.S. history, only twelve Cabinet nominations have been rejected—and rarely has a President’s Cabinet pick been denied by ...

Starring as Lewis Strauss, the former Marvel actor plays opposite Cillian Murphy's J. Robert Oppenheimer, as one of the original members of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) in 1946.

In Christoper Nolan's "Oppenheimer," Robert Downey Jr. plays Lewis Strauss, the man who wanted to topple J.Robert Oppenheimer from glory for good. Strauss was Oppenheimer's real-life nemesis and ...

Meanwhile, physicist Edward Teller and Atomic Energy Commissioner (AEE) Lewis Strauss were among those who began arguing vociferously for a "high-priority" program to build a hydrogen bomb.