Word: democratized
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When the Appalachia bill reached the Senate floor, it included 355 counties in eleven states.* Predictably, many a Senator wanted to get into the act by amending the bill to include regional aid programs in his own home territory. Massachusetts Democrat Ted Kennedy had a plan for New England, Arkansas Democrat John McClellan one for the Ozarks, and Michigan Democrat Patrick McNamara one for the Upper Great Lakes area. Arguing that such additions would smother the original Appalachia plan and promising that President Johnson would soon send other regional programs to Congress, Majority Leader Mike Mansfield managed to dissuade...
Since the floor manager for foreign aid is routinely a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, Fulbright's move left the Administration in some thing of a quandary. Democratic Whip Russell Long, an 8½-year member of the committee, is an outspoken critic of the entire foreign aid program. So is Montana's Mike Mansfield, the Democratic floor leader. So is Oregon Democrat Wayne Morse. Alabama's John Sparkman, next in seniority to Fulbright, was reluctant as any to take on the task. Only after much cajoling did he finally agree to accept, even while warning...
...What a pair we've got now! An ineffectual Senate majority leader and a part-time Democrat as Senate majority whip. Long suddenly observes that the Civil War is over, and that we live in a "changing world" where "things move." He'd be great at forecasting trends...
Died. John McCulloch Spencer, 47, Vermont Democratic politician who in 1962 was campaign manager in the upset election of Governor Philip Hoff (Vermont's first Democrat in 107 years), last year suddenly resigned as Hoff's chief aide and state party chairman with a public announcement that he was an incurable alcoholic; of cirrhosis of the liver; in Gardner, Mass...
...naturally, he knows little more than many clever boys, whether of facts or of men. But all that he has put himself in the directest way of learning. At present he calls himself a Tory Democrat. Tory--the opinions--might change: Democrat--the methods--never. For he has the 20th Century in his narrow...