Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dimensions of Lyndon Johnson's victory were staggering. He won every one of the East's 142 electoral votes, becoming the first Democratic President ever to carry Vermont, the first since 1912 to win Maine. He made a clean sweep of the Midwest, the Mountain and Border States, the West Coast, appeared to have lost only Arizona in the Southwest. Only in the South did Barry Goldwater score a breakthrough, capturing Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina. Remarkably, the pattern of Democrat Johnson's victory was strikingly similar to Republican Dwight Eisen- hower...
...most watched U.S. Senate race of 1964, and he surely will be the most observed junior Senator in many a term. Democrat Robert F. Kennedy, 38, put an end to the 18-year congressional career of New York Republican Liberal Kenneth Keating, 64, and joined his brother, Teddy, in the Senate...
...retain his post, Buzcko like every other elected official needs to build his own organization, since he can expect little help from the Democratic party (completely indistinguishable from the personal organization of Senator Kennedy, the leading Democrat). Curiously enough, the least of his worries are the Republicans, who have nominated Elywnn Miller, someone even more unknown than Buzcko himself...
...economic influences within the various ethnic groups will tend to split them up and assimilate them, and the day will come when a Greek can run for office outside Lowell, and an Irishman can win in the North End. In the meantime, though, the best hope for the Democratic Party and the state lies with the Kennedy's and their allies. There is much truth to the charge that they ran out on the state in 1960, but the fact is that ever since John Kennedy began to run for office, the quality of the state's officers has been...
Through the Roosevelt years, it was only the Faculty, the Law School, the GSAS and Radcliffe who put their faith in the Democrat. The rest of the University defeated "that man" soundly every time they had their chance, however vicariously. In the later terms, however, some of this FDR support was also found among commuters, Adams House men and Kirkland House...