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...wake of the Wallace withdrawal, Alabama Republicans claimed, with some justification, that Goldwater would not only carry the state but would carry some Republican Congressmen along with him. In Mississippi, Tom Garrott, a longtime member of the state Demo cratic executive committee, began cranking up a Democrats-for-Goldwater movement. Throughout the South, Gallup and Harris polls agreed, a Wallace candidacy would have cost Goldwater 12% of the vote, Johnson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democrats: I Was the Instrument | 7/31/1964 | See Source »

Cannon's successor was Texas Demo crat George Mahon, who has voted against aid only once in his 30-year congressional career. The third was the performance of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara in preliminary hearings before Passman's subcommittee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Aid: A Bikini Is Better Than Nothing | 6/19/1964 | See Source »

...skillfully against the technologically superior Boers a century ago. "This," he said in a dramatic peroration from the dock, "is the struggle of the African people, inspired by their own suffering and experience. It is a struggle for the right to live. I have cherished the ideal of a demo cratic and free society, in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunity. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and achieve. But, if needs be, my Lord, it is an ideal for which I am prepared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: Avoiding Martyrdom | 6/19/1964 | See Source »

...fight, limiting himself to frequent phone calls to Mansfield or Hubert Humphrey, floor manager for the pro-rights coalition. "When he's most needed," says a Johnson aide, "he'll get into it." Humphrey, a veteran civil rights battler who sparked the 1948 Dixiecrat walkout at the Demo cratic National Convention by inspiring the insertion of a strong rights plank, will be backed up by three strongly liberal deputies: Washington's Warren Magnuson, whose Commerce Committee late last year approved a separate public accommodations bill that is slightly stronger than the version passed by the House; Pennsylvania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: When Is a Majority a Majority? | 3/20/1964 | See Source »

...Harris has carried out private polls for 35 U.S. Senators and 17 state Governors, plus scores of other office holders and office seekers. He was John F. Kennedy's pollster in 1960, and Ken nedy based many of his campaign deci sions, both in his drive for the Demo cratic nomination and in his contest with Nixon, on Harris' findings and counsel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Democratic Pollster | 4/6/1962 | See Source »

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