Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whom President Kennedy paid tribute in Seattle last week is one of the U.S. Senate's most informal and durable personalities. In his moments of reflection, Washington Democrat Warren ("Maggie") Magnuson says of his own success: "I've been in 23 elections, big and small, and I've always had the votes. I go to the people and I listen to what they've got to say, and then I tell them what...
...need the speech, and if you need the speech, you don't have the votes." For that matter, Maggie preaches to others what he practices himself. Entering the Senate late one afternoon to drop some home-state bills into the hopper, he found Illinois' Democrat Paul Douglas delivering an epochal speech to an empty chamber. Magnuson sidled up to Douglas and whispered: "For God's sake, Paul, nobody's listening to you." The startled Douglas sat down and Maggie hoppered his bills...
Magnuson's effectiveness comes from his off-chamber work as chairman of the Senate's Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee, senior Democrat on the Appropriations Committee, and member of many subcommittees. All this he calls "kitchen work." Says Maggie: "The hard part is the kitchen work. These Liberals, as they call themselves, they aren't the real Liberals. They get nothing done. They want to be out on the front porch talking while the rest of us are back doing the kitchen work. Well, I'll tell you where to look if you want to find...
...Main Line and wealthy in her own right from Pennsylvania Railroad holdings, Tod Clark married Nelson Rockefeller six days after his 1930 graduation from Dartmouth College. She was hardly the sort to feel at home in the political milieu. But when Rocky boomed into elective politics in 1958, swamping Democrat Averell Hardman for Governor, Tod tried to make the best of it. "I certainly think it's a challenge and enjoyable," she said, not quite convincingly, of political life. "I think you have an opportunity to get close to the real life of the community...
Ever since he left Washington, Dwight Eisenhower has been encouraging his former Cabinet members to stay active in politics and even to run for office. First to heed the advice was Labor Secretary James Mitchell, who ran for Governor of New Jersey and was defeated by Democrat Richard Hughes (TIME, Nov. 17). Last week a second Ike teammate announced he would make the try. In Lincoln, Neb., former Interior Secretary Fred A. Seaton announced he would run for Governor of Nebraska; he will probably face conservative Republican State Chairman Charles Thone in a primary next May. In addition to Mitchell...