Word: democratizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...November, Mrs. Heckler must run against Democrat Patrick Henry Harrington, 46, a tough labor lawyer with three terms on the Bristol County board of commissioners behind him. Because of redistricting, the Tenth District now has more registered Democrats than Republicans, and Peggy Heckler will need every ounce of her vigor to hold the constituency for the Republican Party...
...There's no use figuring out where you're going to be later on; you may not be there at all. So the sensible thing is to do the very best you can all the time." Still, he has a 20/20 eye on 1972. When a Georgia Democrat asked him which of six gubernatorial candidates he was supporting in that state, Bobby replied: "None. Your Governor can't succeed himself. But I'll be interested in the one who succeeds him. He's the one who'll be in office...
...newly elected president of the N.S.A., Rhodes Scholar and University of Chicago Graduate Gene Groves, proclaimed that he is a "leftwing Democrat." The newly elected national-affairs vice president, former New York University Graduate Student Ed Schwartz, positioned himself to the left of Groves. Bearded David Harris, attending the meeting as Stanford's student president, said: "It's hard to find someone farther to the left than...
Though Los Angeles politics are nominally nonpartisan, Sam was, in fact, the first Democrat elected mayor in more than 50 years. That should have made California Democrats happy, but it emphatically did not. Sam had already shown his maverick streak by supporting Republican Richard Nixon against Jack Kennedy in 1960 after his first choice, Lyndon Johnson, had lost to J.F.K. for the Democratic nomination. When Nixon ran for the California governorship against Pat Brown...
...pointedly withheld an endorsement of Brown, has been haunting his fellow Democrat ever since. After easily winning re-election against Jimmy Roosevelt last year, Yorty confronted Brown more directly, challenged him in this summer's gubernatorial primary. Attacking the two-term Governor as "the captive of left-wingers," Yorty polled nearly 1,000,000 votes (v. 1,300,000 for Brown), a strong enough showing to make Republican Candidate Ronald Reagan's chances against Brown in November look mighty favorable...