Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Capitol mall. Rarely were more than a few dozen Senators on hand to take part in the debate. Others strolled in occasionally from the cloakrooms to interrupt the proceedings with speeches about dam projects in their home states. In the presiding officer's chair, New York Democrat Robert F. Kennedy leafed idly through a sheaf of clippings about his recent raft trip down the Yampa and Green rivers in Colorado and Utah. After four days of desultory debate, it was all over. Medicare, once the most controversial domestic issue in the U.S., breezed through the Senate like nothing worse...
...Twilight Zone." To several Senators, that was not enough, and Senator Long, the bill's floor manager, spent most of the week fighting off efforts to broaden coverage. Connecticut Democrat Abraham Ribicoff came up with a $180 million plan to give free, unlimited hospitalization to the aged to protect them against "the crushing economic burden of catastrophic illness." He lost but by a narrow 43-39 vote. Vermont Republican Winston Prouty wanted to raise the minimum social-security retirement benefit to $70 but lost, 79 to 12. One $500 million-a-year addition was approved, however: West Virginia Democrat...
While the Republicans blushed, California Democrat James Gorman said: "I must confess that when the venerable gentleman from Virginia espouses a voting rights bill, my overly suspicious nature raises questions." House Speaker John W. McCormack mused that the Southerners had put the Republicans "in a very untenable position...
...that is not in the Senate bill-a House-approved ban of the poll tax for state and local elections in Alabama, Mississippi, Virginia and Texas. Although such a ban was strongly urged by Teddy and Bobby Kennedy, the Senate rejected it. Under pressure from House liberals, Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel Celler, floor manager for the bill, supported the ban, though it caused him some embarrassment. Back in 1961, Celler opposed eliminating the poll tax by statute, proposed doing so by constitutional amendment instead. Last week Louisiana Democrat Joe D. Waggonner Jr. suggested that Celler was being inconsistent...
What, asked New York's Democratic Senator Robert Kennedy, if the President disagreed as to his incapacity? Could not the President fire his Cabinet and appoint a new and more subservient one to prevent his being replaced? "What we would end up with," Bobby suggested, "would be the spectacle of having two Presidents, both claiming the right to exercise the powers and duties of the presidency." Tennessee Democrat Albert Gore had another nightmarish notion. What if an ambitious Vice President were to ally himself with the Cabinet or the "other body"-in other words, "shop around for support...