Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...number of antiwar Senators has grown from ten to 25 in the past year. One of that number is Illinois Republican Charles Percy, who is now asking a phased withdrawal of U.S. forces from Viet Nam, leaving the South Vietnamese government to survive or expire on its own. Ohio Democrat Stephen Young demanded that Westmoreland be replaced by "a more competent general" because he has been "outwitted and outgeneraled...
Dubin, a registered Democrat, ran as an independent in order to oppose Podell. The election was widely heralded as a test of public sentiment on the war in Vietnam...
...YORK, Feb. 20--In a key Congressional by-election, Johnson Democrat Bertram A. Podell defeated McCarthy-endorsed Melvin Dubin...
...necessary. Whether the Government already has the right to impose restrictions is a matter of dispute within the Food and Drug Administration. So far, the faction which holds that FDA can only give information to doctors has prevailed. Now there is mounting pressure from the subcommittee chairman, Wisconsin Democrat Gaylord Nelson, for more stringent measures to control prescription of the drug...
This novel brings up such questions because Gore Vidal is a reasonably serious writer: his credentials, if haphazard, are all in order. Although he has taken time out to run for Congress as a Democrat in 1960 and to haunt television panels as a sort of sexy Schlesinger or political Capote, he has always been primarily a working novelist (Julian), playwright (Visit to a Small Planet), and critic (Rocking the Boat...