Word: democratically
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Asia in the '60s, also objected to American intervention in Europe in 1940 after Hitler's conquest of France. "Had Mr. Lippmann's advice been followed," said Arnold, "Hitler might have won the war." Arnold also noted that Chairman John Kenneth Galbraith of the Americans for Democratic Action recently bemoaned the possibility that a prolonged war in Viet Nam "could mean the death and burial of the Democratic Party." Snapped Arnold, a lifelong Democrat: "In other words, the Democratic Party is more important than the enforcement of international law." Replying to Senator Fulbright's well-worn...
Complaining that the Administration was "trying to silence its critics," McGovern patronizingly absolved Westmoreland of blame, "because he is obviously doing exactly what he is told to do by his Commander in Chief." Florida Democrat Spessard Holland, one of the few non-doves on the floor during McGovern's tirade, took exception to that remark. "The Senator from Florida," said Holland, "does not think that General Westmoreland is a Charlie McCarthy, to come over here and tell the people of this country what someone else wants them to hear...
Just how many goats Wallace might attract next year is uncertain, although the Gallup poll last week found him pulling surprisingly large support-between 12% and 13% in three-way races with Lyndon Johnson as the Democrat and either George Romney or Richard Nixon as the Republican. In both cases, Wallace hurt the Republicans rather than Johnson...
Normally opposing factions were unanimous last week in praising President Johnson's appointment of 40-year-old Federal Deposit Insurance Director William W. Sherrill to the Federal Reserve Board. Texas Democrat Wright Patman, an easy-money champion, predicted that Sherrill would be a "fine member," and Charls E. Walker, executive vice president of the American Bankers Association, praised the appointee's "competence and integrity...
...CRIMSON mistakenly reported that I endorsed the Vietnam Summer at last Thursday's Young Democrat meeting on anti-war organizing. I did not in fact speak about the project. I discussed the necessity of the anti-war movement's not becoming "respectable," that is to say, harmless to the government. In order to build a movement dangerous to the government, I argued for reaching the black and white working people --those most hurt by the war-and helping them organize against the ways the war oppresses them. I maintained the urgency of exposing the imperialist nature of the Vietnam...