Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senate chamber, jammed as the Senate tensed for the vote, hushed for the showdown roll call, which came on a motion by Oklahoma's Democrat Robert Kerr to table the medicare amendment worked out by the Administration and five liberal Republicans. All 100 Senators were present - a rarity. Despite meticulous headcounting, the outcome hinged on a few unpredictable votes. The count began with Vermont Republican George Aiken's crisp anti-Administration "aye"; it had seesawed to a 13-13 tie by the time the clerk reached Douglas of Illinois. Two-thirds of the way down the list...
Then West Virginia Democrat Jennings Randolph, an oldtime New Deal liberal who rarely bucks a Democratic President, cast a resonant and decisive "aye." With that the Administration knew it had almost certainly lost, and Arizona Democrat Carl Hayden, who had reluctantly promised to support the Administration only if his vote was needed to produce a saving tie, also voted against medicare. The final vote was 52 to 48-with 21 Democrats joining 31 Republicans (all except Case, Cooper, Javits, Keating and Kuchel) to defy the President...
...Friend George Smathers who drew most of the anger of White House aides for his anti-medicare vote, since he was an usher at Kennedy's wedding, is Democratic conference secretary, yet repeatedly votes against Kennedy on key issues ("He hasn't stood up for Jack since the wedding," goes a White House wisecrack). Heavy pressure had been exerted to capture Senator Randolph's decisive vote, including a telephone call from Kennedy himself. It all failed-and apparently because Randolph was indebted to Kerr for amending a welfare bill so that hard-pressed West Virginia could receive...
...year ago, the beefy senior Senator from Oklahoma told John Kennedy that he would fight the President all the way on the Administration's medicare bill. Last week, good as his word, Democrat Robert Samuel Kerr, 65, paid off on his promise. No man to tangle with, Kerr buttonholed just enough of his Democratic colleagues, and with a forceful eloquence turned them in his direction. Kerr, co-author of the Kerr-Mills medicare bill, was out-and-out against any other legislation that would undercut his own, and furthermore, was dead set against any new bill that was hinged...
...Louis last week, 20,000 readers of the morning Globe-Democrat were startled to find oddly doctored copies of the paper in their mail. Columns of blushing red duotone ran over news stories, pictures and ads, cutting some pages into bright mosaics, blanketing others in unbroken chromatic glory. In a prideful red banner across the top of Page One, the Globe deciphered the code: ALL THAT'S RED WASN...