Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...began with a prepared statement. "For generations," he said, "Americans have prided themselves on being a people with democratic ideals, a people who pay no attention to a man's race, creed or color. That very phrase has become a truism. But it is a truism with a fundamental defect; it has not been true . . . White people of whatever kind-even prostitutes, narcotics pushers, Communists or bank robbers-are welcome at establishments which will not admit certain of our federal judges, ambassadors and countless members of our armed forces." "You Tell Me." Then the Commerce Committee members began asking...
...bill to help state and local governments develop mass-transportation facilities. It has also approved a Kennedy bill to set up a Youth Conservation Corps, plus a "home town" youth employment program. In the House, however, both measures seem likely to linger in the Rules Committee, headed by Virginia Democrat Howard W. Smith. The Senate also passed the Administration's area redevelopment bill, but the House voted it down...
...what thwarts the President's wishes on Capitol Hill is not so much Republican unity as Democratic disunity. There are lopsided Democratic majorities in both houses: 67 to 33 in the Senate and 256 to 178 in the House (one seat, last held by a Democrat, is vacant). Not since the Democratic high tide in the 1930s has a President enjoyed such a huge numerical advantage in Congress...
...year tour in the sensitive embassy at Saigon, South Viet Nam. But last week the President's choice took nearly everybody by surprise. The ambassador-designate: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., 61, scion of Massachusetts Republicanism, former G.O.P. Senator who was defeated for reelection in 1952 by aspiring young Democrat John F. Kennedy, sometime Ambassador to the United Nations, 1960 Republican nominee for Vice President, and father of the candidate who lost to Teddy Kennedy in Massachusetts' 1962 U.S. Senate race-in short, a fellow who might not be expected to look kindly on the Kennedys...
...have been completely nuts, but I certainly felt that it wasn't committing treason." Robert Frost, amused at being charged with conservatism, defines U.S. political parties in terms of sex: "The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat...