Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Everybody has different ideas about Lyndon. Southerners delight in having a Southerner in the White House-for the first time in 100 years. They figure that he will press no harder than he has to for civil rights. "It's good to be a Democrat again," said Charlotte, N.C., Restaurant Owner James W. Claiborne. Yet Negroes believe that he will go all-out for a strong bill. "Johnson is a man who can talk to those Southerners in their language, but I don't think he'll sell us out," said Chicago Secretary Marian Gaide...
...Hampshire primary. Even if it was, he would almost certainly refuse to campaign actively. He has no real base of operations: he cannot count on New York (it's Rockefeller territory), and he has few friends in California because of his humiliating 1962 loss to Democrat Pat Brown for Governor, his ungraceful acceptance of defeat, and his change of residence to New York. As for most of the rest of the country, the view of Colorado's Republican Governor John Love is fairly typical: "I am not opposed to Nixon personally, but I do hope...
...Reject It." As Morton sat down, Tennessee Democrat Albert Gore sprang to his feet, praised him for his speech, then seconded it in powerful words: "I accept no blame for what this demented man did. I feel no sense of personal guilt. He is the one who had become a fanatic. Why should all America be blamed for the actions of one fanatic? True, our society has many problems and imperfections, much stress and distress, hate, fear and disappointment; but it is an injustice to our millions of people of good will, even the teeming thousands of hospitable, cheering people...
...desired. On foreign policy, the Socialists balked at pledging "fidelity" to NATO but settled for "loyalty" to the Atlantic Alliance and agreement to continue discussions with the U.S. over Italian participation in MLF, the proposed fleet of Polaris-equipped surface ships. In return for accepting anti-Communist Social Democrat Guiseppe Saragat as Foreign Minister, Premier-designate Moro promised the Socialists that he would engage in a "passionate pursuit of peace"-a semantic exercise which seemed to be satisfactory to everyone. Nenni himself was slated to become Vice Premier in the Cabinet; other left-wing Socialists are due to take over...
...fill Hilberry's shoes, Wayne alumni want a "magician" with a "strong stomach" and "free of neuroses." He must be both for and against unions, both Republican and Democrat, yet have "no political bias at all." In breathless order, the next Wayne president must be: "A pragmatic realist, tough, resilient, strong, self-reliant, brave, determined, practical, objective, hardworking, intelligent, flexible, responsible, humble, religious, Godfearing, altruistic, no egghead, socially attractive, good-natured, friendly, and a rugged individualist with high moral character and good judgment." The alumni do not demand that on top of all this he must also...