Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Problem of Climate. To the casual observer, that responsibility might seem simple. After all, Democrat Jack Kennedy took office from Republican Dwight Eisenhower with lopsidedly Democratic majorities in both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives. But Kennedy won his way to the White House by such a perilous plurality (118,000 votes out of a national total of 68 million) that he could in no sense be considered to have a mandate that might compel Congressmen to go along with him. Indeed, many winning Democratic Representatives and Senators who led Kennedy on the ticket within their own constituencies...
...Briens encountered and bitterly resented the anti-Irish feelings that gripped western Massachusetts-the Yankee-bred hostility toward immigrants, the Puritan suspicion of Roman Catholics, the NO IRISH NEED APPLY signs on the factory gates. "My father ran into bigotry," says Larry. "It made him a strong Democrat. It was one place for him to go. He wasn't wanted elsewhere." O'Brien Sr. became a Democratic Party organizer deep inside a Republican fastness. "It was the old story of the Irish immigrant becoming a citizen, a first voter and a politician at the same time," says...
...only one presidential nomination seems doomed to defeat. Kennedy resubmitted the name of John Feikens for the district judgeship in eastern Michigan, where he has an excellent record as an Eisenhower interim appointee. The renomination thoroughly rankled Michipan Democrat Pat McNamara. whom Feikens. a former G.O.P. state chairman, had accused of accepting unlawful union campaign funds in the 1954 senatorial election. Since McNamara will never approve Feikens-and the Senate will go along if he declares the judge "personally obnoxious"-the nomination will be left to expire and a new name submitted at the next congressional session...
...Brown-McCarthy fight actually went far beyond a dispute about drunken drivers. As a veteran California assemblyman and state senator. McCarthy is a powerful Democrat whose ambitions probably do not stop short of the Governor's mansion. Brown long ago promised McCarthy the job of state attorney general -just as soon as he could appoint the incumbent. Stanley Mosk. to the California supreme court. But, as usual, Brown dithered, reconsidered-and backed away from his promise. McCarthy's reaction was his party-splitting resignation...
After 49 years in Congress, Senate President pro Tempore Carl Hayden, 83, now stands third in line of succession to the White House (after Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn). Last week the Arizona Democrat won an even more impressive title: first lady-pleaser of the land. Hayden's credentials, as proclaimed by a bouquet-bearing delegation from the League of Women Voters: he is the only incumbent Congressman to have voted for the 19th Amendment, which ushered in female suffrage...