Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once an outspoken Democrat, Reagan is now a staunch Republican, has developed into a remarkably active spokesman for conservatism. Out of the movies for the past four years, he has become a traveling ambassador for General Electric (he hosts TV's General Electric Theater), spends much of his time carrying conservatism's gospel to audiences across the nation. Reagan's thesis: "Too many people today are inclined to depend on a centralized Government to furnish the answer to all our problems...
...available for Limited Speaking Engagements.) Morton Halperin of the Center for International Affairs revives the notion of limited war tersely and persuasively; Edward S. Cabot alternates the obvious and the original in a highly irritating fashion in an article on Ghana. And, perhaps inevitably, the editors enjoy a little Democrat-baiting, in Cabot's indictment of Soapy Williams' behavior in Africa, in a collection of silly anecdotes called "The Political Notebook...
...under the impression that Harry Truman was still President, a man who wanted to use the Texas shrimp fleet to invade Cuba, and Bing Crosby's father-in-law. Of the six serious candidates, at least two offered as their main credential their wholehearted support of Democrat John F. Kennedy. But when the voting ended last week for the U.S. Senate seat vacated this year by Lyndon Johnson, the result was a repudiation of the New Frontier. The top two, who will soon be matched in a runoff: Conservative Republican John Tower, 35, with 326,400 votes, and Conservative...
...Democrat Blakley has served in the Senate since January, when he was appointed to fill Johnson's seat. A craggy-faced Dallas businessman, he is a major stockholder in Braniff Airways, owns huge hunks of real estate, three insurance companies, a cattle-and-oil ranch, a bank and a shopping center; his net worth runs about $200 million. In the Senate, Blakley bucked the Administration by voting against Kennedy's depressed-areas bill and emergency feed-grains program...
Much of the story was pieced together by a House subcommittee headed by Virginia Democrat Porter Hardy. Checking U.S. aid in South America, Hardy's subcommittee learned some disturbing facts when it turned to Peru...