Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even as a Democrat, I cannot help recognizing Dirksen as a great man. I even like his eccentric hairdo...
...apocryphal story describes Dirksen on the day that he got his official car phone. Eager to show Democrat Lyndon Johnson that he too rated such privileges, Dirksen phoned Lyndon as they were both being driven from the Hill to their homes. "Hello, Lyndon," he said. "This is Everett. I'm calling you from my limousine with my new phone." There was a split-second pause. "Wait a minute, Everett," said Lyndon. ''My other phone is ringing...
Boosting the Economy. A darkly hand some man, Hatfield won national head lines in 1958 - a Democratic year - with an upset victory over Incumbent Democrat Robert D. Holmes. Since then he has carefully husbanded his popularity, avoided controversy, concentrated instead in souping up the state's economy. In the last two years, 100 new industries employing 10,000 workers have come into Oregon; in just two months this summer, $550 million worth of new commercial construction got under way. Hatfield is also a guiding force behind a $10 million private effort to bring research organizations into the state...
...Virginia Democrat Harry Flood Byrd...
While Texas-born Silliman Evans lived, the morning Nashville Tennessean (circ. 131)79?) was one of the most belligerent newspapers in the South. A hell-for-leather Democrat who left newspapering for a while to work for Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, Publisher Evans held that "no Republican is fit to hold public office." He tried his editorial best to see that none did. He also rang the Tennessean like a fire gong, calling attention to corruption and evil wherever he saw it. Cops, ward heelers, city councilmen and even Tennessee's late Political Boss Ed Crump...