Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...offers continuing promise for liberals, the most dramatically encouraging development was the election of Henry B. Gonzalez to the Congressional seat from San Antonio. Gonzalez was victorious in an election which witnessed some of the most highly concentrated, well-organized, well-financed, and intensely-devoted Republican opposition that a Democrat has drawn in Texas in many years. He was victorious in a city which has a Republican mayor and a Republican city council. He won by a substantial eleven thousand votes, emerging not only as the winner of a Congressional race but also as a great figure in Southwestern politics...
...support. A discharge petition, taking a bill out of a committee's hands, is an unusual move, which is against Senate traditions. Arriving on the Senate floor to fight the petition, McClellan growled to a colleague: "I don't know if I'm a Democrat any more." Thundered he to the Senate: "The brightness of the legislative sky is clouded, the brilliance of statesmanship is dimmed, and the light of fairness and justice in this chamber is darkened today by this deplorable action." For the first time in 20 years, every member of the Senate was present...
...rest of the scheduled list of speakers, Sen. Thomas J. Dodd (D-Conn.) has announced his withdrawal on the grounds that "there were too many Republicans" and he would be "the only Democrat." Sen. Strom Thurmond, however, is still planning to attend...
...statesman, Neutralist U Nu has sometimes professed to see little difference between the Communist powers and the West. But as a dramatist, he is as forthright a champion of democracy as any democrat could wish. Sample dialogue (between supporting characters...
...common knowledge in Washington that Stanton had been referring to Lincoln for years as "a giraffe" and "a low, cunning clown." But Lincoln named Stanton Secretary of War partly because he was a Democrat who could bring some balance to the Republican-dominated Cabinet, partly because he was a talented man who could bring some organization to the chaotic War Department...