Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...change in House leadership caused by the death of Speaker Sam Rayburn is another complicating factor. With Mister Sam gone, much of his power is bound to be claimed by the House committee chairmen, whose patriarchal views and parochial interests generally reflect conservative tendencies. Virginia Democrat How ard Smith, chairman of the Rules Committee, is certain to stand in the way of Administration programs. Missouri's Clarence Cannon, chairman of the Appropriations Committee, last week announced, even before he knew what was in Kennedy's budget, that he intended...
...Truman delighted in denouncing "special interest" groups, Kennedy tries to win them over. He places great emphasis on the power of the press, and no other U.S. President has granted so many private interviews to journalists of many levels. It goes without saying that organized labor is friendly to Democrat Kennedy, but the President has also gone all-out to relieve big business of its suspicions about his Administration. He has sent his economic advisers all over the country to preach that big business is a respected Administration partner, slipped such business leaders as U.S. Steel Chairman Roger Blough into...
Arkansas' Democratic Representative Dale Alford is an ophthalmologist-and he knows how to interpret political eye-charts. Alford's Fifth District and Democrat Wilbur Mills's neighboring Second have been merged by congressional redistricting; running against Mills, a twelve-term veteran and chairman of the key House Ways and Means Committee, Alford's rating would be about 20/200. Until a few weeks ago, Alford showed signs of trying instead for Foreign Relations Chairman J. William Fulbright's Senate seat. But after Fulbright returned to Arkansas last fall and hit the hustings in preparation...
...Rocky still seems a cinch for re-election next year as Governor-a prerequisite to the 1964 nomination. So far, few candidates of either party have seemed eager to test him for Governor. But last week two-term U.S. Representative Samuel S. (for Studdiford) Stratton, 45, a lean, attractive Democrat from upstate Schenectady, announced that he would try for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. In the past, Stratton has done handsomely in generally Republican territory-to the point that the 1961 Republican-controlled legislature gerrymandered him out of his district. But were he to get the Democratic nomination, he could hardly...
...unhesitant about disassociating himself from President Kennedy. But, he said, "you can't spite the President. You can only spite yourself. Anyone who does anything, anywhere, any time out of spite is only guilty of faulty reasoning. I'm still a good, conscientious, conservative Southern Democrat." But. argued Waggonner, he should not be damned simply because he was running as a Democrat: "There is not a thing that is going on today that has not been going on for the past eight years. The Republicans have made mistakes; the Democrats have too." Thus, he said, with the issue...