Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, for one, thought she had a point. "She has every right to expect from us a full measure of courtesy," Democrat Mansfield told his colleagues. "This nation has played host to many prominent visitors before Mme. Nhu whose views were, to say the least, not exactly music to our ears...
Criticism by Republicans of President Kennedy's tax cut bill was predictable. So was that of such a fiscal conservative as Democrat Harry Byrd. The bill can probably pass over their opposition, but it will need down-the-line support from liberals. And for that reason the man whom White House strategists are most worried about is Tennessee's Albert Arnold Gore, 55, a liberal member of the Senate Finance Committee whose dislike of the bill may influence other liberals...
...politics, campaigned with a fiddle that scraped out lively hillbilly tunes, and was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1938, when he was 30. Gore earned a reputation among colleagues as a remarkably diligent worker-in his first year, during a House economy drive, he was the Democrat responsible for the defeat of a Roosevelt bill to add $800 million to federal housing funds...
...another Massachusetts Democrat, Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54, is doing more for the state, the chairman admitted, "it is at the expense of 49 other states." He warned that the Kennedys "like all Democrats," are only interested in getting re-elected, and added, "Just give those three Irishmen enough rope and they'll hang themselves...
Under ordinary Kentucky circumstances, Democrat Breathitt would be rated an easy winner. But during the era of the Negro revolution, circumstances are not ordinary anywhere. And Kentucky observers consider it entirely possible that in the Nov. 5 election Nunn might become the first Republican Governor Kentucky has had in 18 years...