Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democrat, and I am voting-if I get a chance-for Barry. It looks like the internationalists and New Dealers are scared someone might stop the big spending. It would be wonderful if we could get a "pro-American" for a change as President...
...Vote. It was precisely 11 a.m., the time set to vote. While Dirksen was still talking, the presiding officer, Montana Democrat Lee Metcalf, brought down his gavel. "Is it the sense of the Senate that the debate shall be brought to a close?" Metcalf asked and ordered the yeas and nays...
...moment of pathos came when the clerk arrived at the name of California Democrat Clair Engle, who has undergone two brain operations and has not appeared in the Senate since April. For this occasion, Engle, smiling gallantly, had been wheeled into the chamber. When the clerk called his name, Engle tried to speak, but could not. Finally he lifted his left arm, pointed at his head, and nodded...
...Republican Dirksen and Democrat Hubert Humphrey were in almost constant touch. Early in the civil rights debate Humphrey knew that he had a hard core of 41 Democrats who could be relied on to vote for cloture...
Barebones Request. Johnson was jubilant, congratulated the House for a "wise and prudent action." Said he: "This is no time to be cutting a carefully drawn measure." Even so, it looked at first as if Congress might cut it to ribbons. Veteran Ax Wielder Otto Pass man, the Louisiana Democrat who heads the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, said that the President "would be very lucky to get $2.5 billion." Congress seemed so rebellious that some officials feared the aid package might eventually be trimmed to $2 billion...