Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Johnson, too, has tasted some frustration. Before the election, he phoned Arkansas Democrat Wilbur Mills, chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, to request a favor. "Wilbur," drawled the President, "I've just been looking through the polls here, and I've only got a few weaknesses, and the worst of them is that I'm not doin' anything for the old folks. I need some help. How about medicare?" In other words, get the bill at least to the House floor. Mills's answer was an un varnished no, and there...
...secret is, Lyndon gives and takes," a fellow Senate Democrat once explained. "If you go along with him, he gives you a little here and there-a dam, or support for a bill." While he was Senate majority leader, Johnson's "treatment" became famous. In cloak room and corridor, in his baronial office or right out on the floor of the chamber, he would go to work on a colleague -squeezing his elbow, draping a huge paw over his shoulder, poking him in the chest, leaning so close as to be practically rubbing noses. On the phone...
Johnson's method, says veteran Democrat Jim Farley, who managed two of F.D.R.'s campaigns but disapproved of the way his boss handled Congress, "has produced both the harmony and the result that already identify it as the soundest approach in a century and a half." Explains Farley: "He has already bestowed on the Congress the respect and consideration it has not received since Jefferson-and the Congress has fully responded in terms of the great respect it holds for the presidency. We shall have no paralyzing crises such as we experienced in the court fight...
Politically, he is Lyndon's kind of man. Connor used to describe himself as a New Dealer, now says, "I am an independent Democrat-or a liberal businessman." But when it comes to a conflict between doctrinaire liberalism and business interests, Connor is a businessman first. In 1959, when Tennessee's liberal Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver was chairing an investigation into drug-industry pricing practices, Connor testified with patient, detailed expertise but found he simply could not penetrate the Keefs preconceptions. Connor admitted that the probe, in a general way, was not without merit, but he blasted Kefauver...
Roosevelt, a six-term Congressman, plans to campaign "not as a liberal Democrat but as a man with a bread and butter program for getting things done." He has the backing of Governor Pat Brown, and will have the support of the state's regular Democratic organization. But Sam Yorty is an old hand at knocking over organizations...