Word: democratization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hear. "The Great Society," he said in Texas, "is not the wave of the future but the end of an era, a dismal rehash of the 1930s." Welfare is "a colossal and complete failure," he said in Des Moines, where he once was a sportscaster and a liberal Democrat. "Let's stop being our brother's keeper, and be his brother. Let him keep himself." On Viet Nam he repeated his hard line. "Attrition has been more costly than a quicker and more violent effort to solve the war might have been." Anti-war demonstrators? The U.S. should...
...Senate floor, a clutch of colleagues surrounded Edward Vaughan Long, pounding his back, shaking his hand, offering effusive congratulations. Had the Missouri Democrat cast a courageous vote, delivered a coruscating speech, proposed a pioneering...
...This lifts a great burden off my shoulders," sighed Long, 59, after Mississippi Democrat John Stennis, chairman of the committee, delivered the unanimous report on the Senate floor. "I am grateful to this committee." Replied Stennis: "We didn't give you anything-only the facts...
Cleveland's mayoralty race had every prospect of being a model campaign. Democrat Carl B. Stokes, a Negro and son of a laundry worker, and Republican Seth Taft, scion of a distinguished political dynasty, are candidates of demonstrable ability and goodwill. Moreover, both had seemed determined to keep the campaign out of the mud. But by last week the race had descended from issues to insults...
Squeak-In Chance. Alioto has the support of old-line Democrat Mayor Shelley for the officially nonpartisan office, but Jack Morrison, 45, has split the party by winning the support of the liberal wing. A former San Francisco Chronicle reporter, Morrison has held local and state party posts, including the San Francisco co-chairmanship of Pat Brown's successful 1962 campaign for Governor. His only major public office has been on the board of supervisors, to which he won election in 1961 and re-election in 1965. Alioto has consistently outpaced Morrison with his well-organized campaign machine...