Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Limit." Standing in the rococo Senate Caucus Room, Minnesota's Eugene Joseph McCarthy, 51, a sardonic intellectual and an outspoken critic of Viet Nam policy, announced that he will enter at least four of next spring's primaries as a Democratic antiwar candidate opposing Lyndon Johnson...
...that Negro members are no longer content to be seen but not heard. An example is the Unitarian-Universalist Association-traditionally noted for its equality-flavored pronouncements on race. At a meeting of 200 Unitarians in Manhattan last month to discuss racial problems, 31 Negro delegates held a separate caucus, accusing their church of denying Negroes fair representation in leadership positions...
Asking for what he called a "peace caucus" at the convention, Galbraith echoed what he had previously said about political action against the war. He called third parties "lost causes," adding, "I like to be with the side that wins...
...speech to the Republican National Committee last week, Maine's Senator Margaret Chase Smith charged that the Democrats are "bogged down and apparently incapable of either winning the war or bringing the fighting to an honorable conclusion." This week, before the American Mining Conference in Denver, House G.O.P. Caucus Chairman Melvin Laird planned to announce that Republicans are now "breaking" with Johnson on the war, though in general they have given him stronger backing than have the Democrats...
...Dictator. For two days, the Negroes haughtily segregated themselves be hind a locked door at the Palmer House. "Black Caucus," declared a sign on the door. "For Blacks Only!!!" When they finally appeared, it was with a splenetic 13-point statement, which they insisted the convention accept or they would secede. The Negroes' demands included 1) Negro membership on all committees, though they made up only about 20% of the delegates; 2) "white civilizing" committees to "humanize the savage and beastlike character of whites" as "exemplified by Lyndon Baines Johnson"; and 3) condemnation of the "im perialistic Zionist...