Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tell who were the halfbacks and who was the President. Moving on to the convention of the National Association of Manufacturers, he puffed a cigar with the best of the businessmen, could easily have passed as a prosperous Boston paper-box tycoon. Again, at a roisterous meeting of Young Democrats in Miami, the beaming President was the personification of a Young Democrat. And, a few hours later, speaking to the leaders of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., he looked for all the world like a stem-winding labor orator...
...colleagues, regardless of party or politics. He tried hard to save Joe McCarthy from the Senate's censure, and might have succeeded had not McCarthy made a witless remark about the panel of Senators investigating him being the "unwitting handmaiden" of Communism. When asked to campaign against Democrat Scott Lucas in Illinois in 1950, Bridges was furious. "Scott Lucas refused to come to New Hampshire in 1948 and campaign against me," he sputtered. "I'll never go after him, no matter how long I live." Last year, for much the same reasons, Bridges refused requests to take...
...days after Katanga President Moise Tshombe was calling on his people to fight the United Nations troops with "poison arrows, spears, axes and picks." To smooth things over, Tshombe and some of his Cabinet ministers mingled pleasantly with U.N. officers at the U.S. consul's cocktail party honoring Democrat Dodd's arrival. But neither Tshombe nor anyone else could control the erratic, excitable Katanga soldiers who had been listening to the President's inflammatory speeches...
From a top Democrat last week came a considered criticism of U.S. handling of world affairs under both the Eisenhower and Kennedy Administrations. Said Washington's Democratic Senator Henry M. Jackson, in summing up the two-year work of his Subcommittee on National Policy Machinery, which was created find out if the U.S. Government is geared to manage the cold war: "There is still much to be done in defining our vital interests and developing a basic national policy which supports them...
William H. Meyer, the Vermont Democrat who "did a lot of fighting" for disarmament and against defense appropriations during his one term in Congress, gave a group of Tocsin members "a little bit of my thinking" last night...