Word: democratic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...honeymoon destination was about the last secret that the White House had managed to preserve since the engagement was announced Christmas Eve. Right up to the wedding day, bits of hitherto classified information continued to dribble out. Pat disclosed to an interviewer that he was a Democrat after all, despite those rumors that he shared his parents' Republican loyalties. The President himself cleared up the question of how the young Nugents would support themselves while attending the University of Texas. Luci, he said, has an income of her own of undisclosed size and source, and Pat's parents...
Soon, the two candidates decided to cool their connections. Ellington found that the conservatives to whom he was appealing for support cared very little about Lyndon Johnson-or any other Democrat, for that matter. Hooker found himself under attack as an agent of "outside forces" trying to intervene in Tennessee politics. Instead of being a surrogate Johnson-Kennedy contest, the race turned into an out-and-out battle between Newcomer Hooker and the powerful Tennessee political machine controlled by Ellington and present Governor Frank Clement, who was running for the Senate in last week's primary. The organization, which...
...Campaign. The irony of Smylie's defeat by Samuelson-who in November will face Democrat Charles Herndon, an unprepossessing protégé of North Idaho Democratic Boss Tom Boise-is that one of his duties as chairman of the Republican Governors is to advise other candidates about how to campaign and how to get grassroots support...
...Emergency Situation." Last spring, when the machinists' strike seemed in evitable, the President invoked the 40-year-old Railway Labor Act to postpone the walkout so that a three-man presidential emergency board could study the dispute. Chaired by Oregon Democrat Wayne Morse, a partisan of organized labor, the board ultimately recommended a wage-benefit increase of 3.6%, a notch above L.B.J.'s 3.2% anti-inflationary wage-price guideline. Johnson was pleased nonetheless, urged both labor and management to accept the board's terms. The five airlines-Northwest, TWA, Eastern, United and National-agreed, but the I.A.M...
...Chided, in bipartisan debate, Richard Helms, the new director of the Central Intelligence Agency, for writing a letter to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat applauding its editorial criticism of Fulbright's stand in last month's Senate hassle over the CIA. Helms promptly apologized to Fulbright by telephone and, as a peace offering, made a personal appearance before Fulbright's committee...