Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...answer to a question on the possibility of General James M. Gavin as a Democratic alternative to President Johnson, Lowenstein predicted that Gavin--who refused the New York liberal's advice to run as a Democrat last summer--"could have won the nomination and stood a good chance of being elected President. Instead, General Gavin will probably seek the Republican nomination and might be elected...
...said the Arkansas Democrat, was more likely "to liquidate the holy fabric of freedom" than to preserve it. "We are weakening this country. What we are doing is sending our men over there and having them slaughtered. We are spending our money, we are disrupting our economy, we are threatened with inflation, we are confronted with an enormous deficit...
...left as a supporter of Johnson's policies, and returned even more firmly convinced that they are correct. "Other than Red China, North Korea and North Viet Nam," he said, "every country over there hopes to God we don't turn around and leave." Speaking after Missouri Democrat Stuart Symington had urged a bombing pause in the North and a cease-fire in the South as a means of testing Hanoi's intentions, Kuchel warned that a suspension of the air war now "would result in grievous harm to our men fighting at Con Thien...
...turned out, the liberals' effort to add a $2.8 billion, two-year emergency job scheme was a boon for the Administration. Their attempt, promoted by Pennsylvania Democrat Joseph Clark and New York Republican Ja cob Javits, consumed so much of the Senate's time and attention that mo tions to deprive OEO of its major func tions were virtually brushed aside. Then a coalition of Republicans and South ern and small-state Democrats buried the Clark-Javits proposal, 54 to 28. Ver mont Republican Winston Prouty tried for a compromise figure of $925 mil lion for one year...
Outside the Deep South, the trend among Republican candidates has been toward moderation on civil rights. Governors Spiro Agnew of Maryland and Winthrop Rockefeller of Arkansas won office even though their Democratic opponents "outsegged" them; in Virginia's 1965 gubernatorial race, moderate Republican Linwood Holton lost to Democrat Mills Godwin, a hardline white supremacist who shifted his stance to court Negro votes. Last week the move toward moderation manifested itself for the first time in that bastion of the white South, Mississippi...