Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pleas-but there was little likelihood that they would dramatically speed up their legislative schedule so as to pass either the civil rights or the tax bill this year. The civil rights measure is presently held by the House Rules Committee, headed by Virginia's Conservative Democrat Howard Smith, faces a certain Southern filibuster when and if it finally reaches the Senate...
...just might -by supporting a compromise bill-give the Congress a chance to get the civil rights bill behind it before adjournment. The tax-cut bill, which has already passed the House, remains the subject of lengthy hearings before the Senate Finance Committee, chaired by Virginia's Conservative Democrat Harry Byrd; even after Johnson's speech, Majority Leader Mike Mansfield could promise only that the bill would be first on the agenda for floor debate when the Senate reconvenes next January...
...rest assured, he is far from being a nonentity. Perhaps still another Vice President best described his skills. "He is," Richard Nixon once said, "one of the ablest political craftsmen of our time." During Republican Dwight Eisenhower's two terms, Johnson was the Senate's Democratic floor leader, and between presidential election years he was generally recognized as the U.S.'s most powerful Democrat. By the time he accepted his party's vice-presidential nomination, he was probably the only Democrat in the country who could step down to the nation's second-highest office...
Those Aching Arms. No one who ever saw him as Senate leader could ever forget it. He seemed to be everywhere -in the chamber, the cloakrooms, the caucuses and the corridors-cajoling, persuading, convincing and sometimes threatening. A fellow Senate Democrat once explained Johnson's techniques in relatively benign terms: "The secret is, Lyndon gives and takes. If you go along with him, he gives you a little here and there-a dam, or support for a bill." But a good many Senators can testify that when such conciliation failed, they had their arms twisted almost permanently...
...party's best years were the early fifties. In 1951 the Liberals did the impossible: their own candidate, Rudolph Halley, beat a Democrat and a Republican for president of the New York City Council. Halley got 657,000 votes; James A. Hagerty, then a reporter for The New York Times, called the Liberals "the number one party in New York City." A year later Prof. George S. Counts of Teachers College, Columbia, ran for U.S. Senate on the Liberal ticket and got 461,000 votes...