Word: democratization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Frank Lausche was mayor of Cleveland in the early '40s, he sculpted his political totem in the form of a mugwump and named it antiboss. Through five terms as Governor and two as U.S. Senator, the conservative-minded Democrat was well served by his cult of independence, although party leaders from the White House to the Ohio state committee were frequently and understandably distressed...
State Department Chief of Protocol James Symington, 40, also bade farewell last week. He wants to run for the House as a Democrat in Missouri's traditionally Republican Second District. It might be an uphill fight, but he knows a few things about Missouri politics, having twice helped run successful campaigns for his father, Senator Stuart Symington. Symington's replacement at State will be U.S. Ambassador to Spain Angier Biddle Duke, who held the protocol post for four years before going to Madrid...
Dean Watson's idea of a hot time may be hitting the dance floor with an M.I.T. Young Democrat, but the swingers in Quincy House have been known to go for slightly racier fare...
...Congress, taking into their confidence such key men as House Republican Leader Jerry Ford and Wisconsin's John Byrnes, ranking Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee. Most important of all, the President had been in constant touch with Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills, the Arkansas Democrat who remains the keystone to passage of Johnson's proposed 10% surcharge in income taxes. Said Mills when the balance of payments program was made public: "I support it. Our situation is serious. We have to do something...
...March from which candidates, both an nounced and unannounced, can emerge carrying the knife triumphantly in their hands or painfully in their ribs. This year the hoopla will be all the greater because both parties will participate in the winter sport-a condition assured last week when Minnesota Democrat Eugene McCarthy announced that he would add New Hampshire to the five other states in which he will give the party a pacific alternative to Lyndon Johnson's renomination...