Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Texas (24): Big, Baptist and basically conservative, Texas dislikes Republican Nixon less than it dislikes Democrat Kennedy. NIXON...
Small Anchor. Skeptics suggest that Kennedy drew the mantle of New Deal-Fair Deal liberalism around him because he sensed that liberalism offered the only way for a Democrat to win back labor and the minorities from Dwight Eisenhower, and with them the powerful Northern cities. Whether by design or scruple, Kennedy indeed did change his thinking in several areas: his position on farm subsidies switched from Benson's flexible supports to down-the-line 90% of parity. His biographer, James MacGregor Burns, calls him a genuine liberal who "had the helm fixed toward port but . . . was still dragging...
...prestigious New York Times, which has not endorsed a Democrat since 1944, when it recommended a fourth term for Franklin Roosevelt after opposing him for Terms II and III, came out for Kennedy in a limp and stodgy statement: "In the field of foreign policy . . . despite their sharp dispute over Quemoy and Matsu, the two candidates are in substantial agreement . . . But Senator Kennedy's approach . . . except for his momentary blunder suggesting intervention in Cuba . . . seems to us to be more reasoned, less emotional, more flexible, less doctrinaire, more imaginative, less negative." On domestic policy a Democratic President will have...
Meet the Press (NBC, 6-7 p.m.). A major Republican and a major Democrat in a dual interview...
Even those expressing approval of both candidates seemed detached from their favorite. Kennedy won approval for his intelligence, vigor, and overall "polish," but when asked to state their major reason for preferring the Senator, most voters either shrugged or said "I'm a Democrat." Nixon fans reacted similarly. While citing the Vice-President's experience and maturity as the most compelling factor affecting their vote, at least half of the voters preferring Nixon spoke more favorably about the Republican and unfavorably about the Democratic Party than they did about their own candidate...