Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Representative J. T. Rutherford, Murphy suspended the cancellation in order to reconsider the legal merits of the tangled affair. Why? Well, there was the possibility that Estes may have only made an "honest mistake." This explanation did not seem to convince Republican Subcommittee Member Karl Mundt of South Dakota, who grumbled that Murphy's actions amounted to "trying to find a way out for Mr. Estes." Said Murphy: "You can call it indecisiveness if you want, Senator. We call it 'due process' down where I work." Retorted Mundt: "Sounds more like 'undue process...
Most of the little talks that President Kennedy makes to visiting White House groups-exchange teachers, clubwomen, South Dakota Indians-are about as inspired as the occasions that compel them...
President Kennedy had just completed his three-day "nonpolitical" trip to South Dakota, Colorado and California-and he personally considered it a smashing political success. Wherever he went, cheering crowds told him that he still had his way with the people. And when he went swimming, they swooned...
...Their Senate future appears brightest. They do not expect to lose any seats, and may even pick up a couple. Their highest hopes are in South Dakota, where G.O.P. Incumbent Joseph Bottum is challenged by former Food-for-Peace Director George McGovern, and in Wisconsin, where aging Republican Alexander Wiley is up against retiring Governor Gaylord Nelson...
Powerhouse Performance. In small Pierre, S. Dak. (pop. 10,500), Kennedy paid his respects to welcoming officials-then broke for the airport fence to shake at least 200 hands among some 2,500 people pressing to see him. He was in South Dakota, ostensibly, to help dedicate a new 595,000-kw. Oahe Dam powerhouse. But the real reason for his presence was right at Kennedy's elbow: Democrat George McGovern, South Dakota Congressman from 1957 to 1961, Kennedy's Food for Peace director until last month, now a candidate for the U.S. Senate. McGovern, running neck...