Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thomas Edward Whelan, 65, is a well-to-do, homespun North Dakota potato farmer and a power in his home state's politics. He has also been U.S. Ambassador to dictatorial Nicaragua for nine years-longer in one post than any other current U.S. ambassador and so long that he hardly seems the man for Washington's new policy of (as Richard Nixon put it) "a warm embrace for democratic leaders and a formal handshake for dictators...
Sometimes, in his plain North Dakota way, Whelan had tried to persuade old Tacho to allow Nicaragua a little democracy, but then he would quickly agree with Tacho that Nicaraguans were politically too immature for much freedom. Whelan claims a little more success with Luis and Tachito. After his father's death, Tachito was bent on killing the enemies of the Somozas when Ambassador Whelan convinced his friend that this might be going too far. He also encouraged Luis to put through a law prohibiting any member of the Somoza family from succeeding him to the presidency...
...reward to North Dakota's maverick-Republican Senator, the late William ("Wild Bill") Langer, who cast a crucial vote against Senate investigation of alleged 1946 vote frauds in Truman's home town, Kansas City...
Competition for Cameras. After the ovation died down, Candidate Symington made it clear that he had not changed his mind about entering state primaries (in fact, the filing date for all but South Dakota and the District of Columbia had passed). And he took sharp issue with the Kennedy line that a couple of primary victories should open the way to nomination. "Only four states-and the District of Columbia have contested primaries, [and they] have only 106 out of 1,521 convention votes," said he. "I believe that all delegates should have a vote in selecting the nominee." Then...
...containing the names of 87 Senators and Representatives running for 1960 reelection. Sent several months ago to Teamster leaders around the country, it cited four Democratic Senators (McClellan, Mississippi's James Eastland, West Virginia's Jennings Randolph and Tennessee's Estes Kefauver) and five Republicans (South Dakota's Karl Mundt, Ida ho's Henry Dworshak. Colorado's Gordon Allott. Nebraska's Carl Curtis and Kansas' Andrew Schoeppel). Although Hoffa professes to be an all-out civil rights integrationist, he urged support for Ar kansas Supreme Court Justice Jim John son ("a professional...