Word: democratization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...party--in other words, the right to speak on issues, and the right to with hold endorsement or funds--when that would be greater in achieving goats. This is a direct reaction to the "heavy-handed" Johnson and Humphrey supporters who have continuously claimed that being a Democrat involves a ban on attacks on the Administration or the war in Vietnam...
Small Triumph. Several times since the election, Nixon has telephoned Mills for "friendly" chats. Last week he had the Arkansas Democrat in for an hour's conversation. If the courtship so far has not produced any grand entente, it has at least created a promising air of cooperation and potential compromise. "We'll try to work out some degree of compatibility," said the Congressman, "that will make it possible for us to legislate...
...Capitol Hill generate as much fear and frustration as Congressman John James Rooney. In the 17 years that he has chaired the powerful House Subcommittee on Appropriations for State, Justice, Commerce, the Judiciary and related agencies, the diminutive Democrat from Brooklyn has made a career of slashing budget requests, especially those of the State Department. It was Rooney who coined the famous expression "booze allowance" for diplomats' representational allowance-money allotted for official entertaining. His blistering interrogations have left battered and bloodied almost two generations of officialdom. Despite his tortuous quizzings and penurious disposition, Rooney, 65, has his advocates...
...Department of Housing and Urban Development, but last week Brooke refused the job. Besides feeling some restiveness about Nixon's approach to minority problems during the campaign, Brooke cherishes his independence in the Senate. A new possibility for HUD may now be Urbanologist Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a Democrat...
...nation's Senators and Representatives would be in jail. They might even be enough for a quorum. This year, however, the incoming Republican Administration faces an unusual problem. Under pressure from Attorney General Ramsey Clark, the clerk of the House of Representatives, former Congressman Pat Jennings, a Democrat, has taken the unprecedented and even-by sedate congressional standards -slightly ungentlemanly step of turning over to the FBI a list of organizations that had been delinquent in filing their accounts. The offenders include the Cincinnati-based National Coordinating Committee for Humphrey and no fewer than 20 Republican committees organized...