Word: democratic
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South Carolina Democrat L. Mendel Rivers, whose House Armed Services Committee will write the legislation, at first seemed opposed to the President's program, in particular to the lottery idea, which under present circumstances would become a form of Viet Nam roulette. Rivers had employed his own advisory panel, which flatly rejected any system of random selection, and the chairman apparently differed with the President on other points as well...
...Harlem Democrat J. Raymond Jones claimed that he had information that Republicans of the 18th District had been "in revolt" over Meredith's candidacy...
Both Hands Full. During the House debate, no one tried to pardon Powell's peccadilloes. Even his staunchest defender-Michigan Democrat John Conyers, a Negro-argued that he should be censured. In light of the evidence and the fact that the mail of some Congressmen was running 100 to 1 against seating Powell, the chief dispute concerned the severity of his penalty...
Natural Resources. "If just once," observed Florida Democrat Sam Gibbons afterward, "Adam had come in and said, I made a mistake,' things might have turned out differently." But throughout, Powell was being-Powell. While the House wrangled over his fate, he spent the afternoon playing dominoes in Bimini's End of the World bar, sipping "cowbells" (milk laced with Scotch) supplied by reporters. "If I'm excluded," he said philosophically, "I'll be happy all the time. If I'm not excluded, I'll be happy all the time...
Powell's color certainly cost him votes among Southern Democrats, who sat back and quietly enjoyed the debate, saying little. But Arizona Democrat Morris Udall insisted that color had nothing to do with his exclusion and actually prevented the House from bouncing him sooner. "If he'd been white," said Udall, "we'd have gotten him a long time ago. This racism thing held a lot of people...