Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bill, a lifelong Democrat, joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 1951, soon locked horns with the late Senator Joe McCarthy over a $400 contribution he had made to a defense fund for Alger Hiss. "I believed him worthy of a full defense," he says, "and the Hiss family didn't have the means." The fact that Bill was married to the daughter of McCarthy's archfoe, former Secretary of State Dean Acheson, did not exactly endear him to the Senator. Neither did the fact that McGeorge Bundy, though a Republican himself, had edited Dean Acheson's state...
...Rhode Island governor, who won a narrow upset victory over incumbent Democrat John A. Nottee, Jr. last year, will discuss "the future of the Republican Party in an increasingly liberalized, urbanized, and 'Kennedyized' New England...
...Arkansas Democrat William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, stood casually with one hand in a pocket, spoke in an offhand manner: "Mr. President, it is my task today to commence the debate on the foreign assistance bill of 1963." Although long one of the Senate's foremost advocates of foreign aid, Fulbright demonstrated that this time he really did find his task painful. "I tend to share the view of many members of this body," he said, "that at least portions of the foreign aid program are obsolescent." He urged the Kennedy Administration "not to delay...
...doomed. "The reason why the program is in trouble-and it is in trouble," declared New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits, "is that neither this Administration nor the previous Administration understood what the private enterprise system is capable of contributing, and has failed to use it." Oregon Democrat Wayne Morse charged that U.S. taxpayers were being "rooked by our worldwide-flung giveaway foreign aid program...
...Gift. Another good Senate friend of Baker's was Oklahoma's millionaire Democrat Robert S. Kerr (Kerr-McGee Oil Industries Inc.). Before he died last January, Kerr was one of the Senate's most powerful members. At one point, Baker got a $275,000 mortgage on Serv-U Corp. from Oklahoma City's Fidelity National Bank, of which the Kerr family owns...