Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mere notion of Kennedy's visiting California seemed to send former Vice President Richard Nixon, deeply involved in a hard campaign to unseat Democrat Pat Brown as California's Governor, into a terrible tizzy. Noting that Robert Kennedy was also speaking in the state, Nixon said: "We welcome them. In November we are going to show these carpetbaggers a thing or two."Asked about this, Presidential Press Secretary Pierre Salinger replied: "I don't know anybody in the United States, no matter in what state he resides, who considers the President of the United States a carpetbagger...
There, Texas Democrat George Mahon was opposed on principle to Vinson's order-and-direct move; but Mahon, a cautious fellow, declined to fight Vinson openly. Instead, two of the subcommittee's ablest Republican members, Michigan's Gerald R. Ford and Wisconsin's Melvin Laird, threw themselves into the overt fight against Vinson. They enlisted the support of Republican Floor Leader Charles Halleck-who had never quite forgiven Vinson for helping round up Southern votes to liberalize the conservative House Rules Committee...
Qualifying himself as a New Deal Democrat, Hughes said bypass the Democratic Primary and run as an independent because the party had "not remained true" to its tradition. He now must obtain 72,500 valid signatures his name on the ballot in November...
Some Brandeis girls asked a Young Democrat if he wouldn't like to help them pass out peace pamphlets at the same time. A contingent of townies claiming to be from Boston Latin made things rather difficult by assuring passers-by that "the Harvard so-and-so will give you a lollipop if you answer the questions right...
Taylor's book is, among other things, a challenge to laymen and historians whose views of the Second World War rest on a moral judgment of Hitler and the "Nazi idea." It is not easy to accept such a challenge; for there can be no compromise in a democrat's mind with the Nazi regime as it operated within Germany between 1933 and 1945. And it is difficult to avoid extending one's critique of that regime to its performance in the field of foreign relations, and to count Hitler guilty of diplomatic sins just as one condemns his domestic...