Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...point during a private caucus, Indiana's salty Democratic Governor, Roger Branigin, leaped up and suggested that maybe Johnson would decide not to run again. John Connally shot back: "Are you kidding?" Undaunted, Branigin barked: "Well, if I didn't have any more nuts in my basket than he's got, I don't think I'd want to walk through the woods again." And Missouri's Democratic Governor War ren Hearnes told a press conference: "If the President will not honestly re-evaluate the situation and make changes, I would be less than...
...milestone of sorts. Into an austere caucus chamber in Bonn's Bundestag last week filed a delegation of Christian Democrats followed by a deputation from the opposition Social Democrat Party. With West Germany's political crisis entering its fourth week, Kurt Georg Kiesinger, the Christian Democrats' candidate for Chancellor, met with Socialist Leader Willy Brandt to discuss something that had never been tried before in the postwar period: a "grand coalition" between the red and the black...
...reporters waiting impatiently outside a caucus room in the Bundestag last week could only guess at the events inside. Then, suddenly, a rhythmic wave of stamping feet told them that the Bundestag delegates of West Germany's ruling Christian Democratic Union had elected a new candidate for Chancellor. Moments later, C.D.U. backbenchers rushed out with the news: the man was Kurt Georg Kiesinger, 62, the silver-haired Minister President of the southwestern state of Baden-WUrttemberg...
...ironic spectacle. For almost 17 years, Ludwig Erhard had been lionized as the No. 1 vote getter of West Germany's ruling Christian Democratic Union. On his prestige, scores of C.D.U. politicians had ridden to election victories. Many of them were seated before him last week in the caucus room of the Bundeshaus in Bonn. They knew that they had been summoned to watch as Erhard's enemies tightened the pressure on him to resign. But no one knew whether the Chancellor would turn with a roar on his tormentors or go along with those who had been...
...Bavarian wing of the Christian Democrats, was elbowing Erhard by threatening to pull his six ministers out of the government unless the Chancellor went ahead and stepped down. And the C.D.U.'s Deputy Leader Rainer Barzel, who had been instrumental in forcing Erhard to face the caucus, was now maneuvering to isolate Erhard from any remaining support. About the only Erhard enemy not on the scene was flinty old (90) Konrad Adenauer. Though he had sniped mercilessly at Erhard almost from the day in 1963 that he handed the job over to him, the ex-Chancellor was strangely quiet...