Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...playing the role of the jolly fat man, Ohio Democrat Mike Di Salle helped make himself a political success. But after he was elected Governor in 1958, Di Salle got serious. He wanted to be remembered as the man who had wrought great improvements in his state's highway, education and mental-health programs. Instead, he was criticized for raising taxes by $310 million. Di Salle brooded over his misfortune, then got mad. In so doing he committed political suicide...
...Eisenhower's Interior Secretary. He came out for a more costly teacher-retirement program, increased funds for the University of Nebraska, a stepped-up highway construction plan. Morrison, a scuffed-shoes-and-red-galluses sort of fellow, made fun of the Kennedy Administration, declined to let New Frontier Democrats come into the state to campaign for him, insisted that Seaton's programs would require a 40% increase in the state's property tax. Nebraska Republicans decided that Democrat Morrison was more conservative than Seaton. Morrison won easily...
...presidential nomination, Oregon's Republican Governor Mark Hatfield, 40, rolled to a second term with lots of votes to spare. More impressive, he was one of the few incumbent Governors in the U.S. whose plurality did not shrink from the previous election. Hatfield was just too much for Democratic State Attorney General Robert Thornton, who never had a chance. But Hatfield missed another sort of chance: he gave only the most tepid support to a weak G.O.P. ticket mate, Senate Candidate Sig Unander, who did well in losing to Democrat Wayne Morse. If popular Mark Hatfield had gone...
Ridiculous Issue. Nixon's political death came not in his defeat for Governor of California by incumbent Democrat Pat Brown but in his manner of meeting it. Brown is neither a great personality nor a great statesman, but he makes the most of what he has. Against him, Nixon decided to make domestic Communism the big issue; but the notion that Brown was soft on Communism was ridiculous. Sensing defeat, Nixon flailed out in a last-minute fury. On election eve, he appeared on television-with his wife and two teen-age daughters at his side-claimed in persecuted...
Even Adenauer's firmest friends were alarmed to hear this staunch old democrat voice the essentially totalitarian philosophy that the end justifies the means and that, even in peacetime, due process of law can be set aside to protect the state. Almost unanimously, German editors felt that whatever good intentions lay behind the government's deeds, it all had the sound of an echo from Germany's tragic past. There was no denying that a security breach had been committed, and there were even charges that Der Spiegel had bribed an army officer to divulge military secrets...