Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Congressmen on the other side of the debate were equally vociferous. South Carolina Democrat L. Mendel Rivers, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, called on the Administration to blast Hanoi off the map. Georgia Democrat Richard Russell, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, accused Lyndon Johnson of conduct "almost unseemly for the President of the U.S." for having "fluttered around" with peace feelers...
...calculated that Powell and some of his staff had "wrongfully" appropriated at least $46,226. It also suggested that his salary be docked $1,000 a month (out of $2,500), so that the easy-payment restitution would run into the next Congress. Actually, the committee, chaired by Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel Celler, 78, "dean" of the House, settled for a compromise. All nine members signed it, but Florida Democrat Claude Pepper went on record in favor of excluding Powell, while Michigan Democrat John Conyers, a Negro, maintained that severe censure would be sufficient penalty. What Powell will do remains uncertain...
...despite his extensive scholarly commitments, Howe was deeply and passionately involved in public affairs. An active Democrat and adviser to many Democratic candidates for state office, Howe served on his ward committee until he felt obliged last year to resign so that he would be free to support publicly a Republican. Elliot L. Richardson '41. Howe found his own party's candidate for Attorney General in that election intolerable...
...effort to organize a general strike of Negro workers and school children in support of Adam Clayton Powell proved a total flop. In New York, a meeting of national Negro leaders to promote backing for him was postponed indefinitely. In Washington, the special House committee investigating the Harlem Democrat's fitness to serve in the 90th Congress could only elicit evidence that he should...
...weeks now, former White House braintrusters of such varied stripe as Walter Heller and Paul Samuelson, editorialists as far apart as the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times and Senators of such diverse views as New York Republican Jacob Javits and Missouri Democrat Stuart Symington have been sniping at everything from the government's fiscal blunders and the often broken wage-price guidelines to the faulty forecasting of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. Finally, when Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire called 1966 "the year of the big goof," charging that the Administration had underestimated Viet...