Word: democratizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the bill reached the Senate floor, the Democratic leadership had to fight desperately to restore the $12 million. They finally eked out a 46-to-45 victory. The Administration resorted to some arduous logrolling, as with "Operation Igloo" involving Alaska Democrat E. L. ("Bob") Bartlett, who was craftily withholding his support for rent subsidies. Just as he hoped, Bartlett suddenly received promises that the Administration would arrange loans for Eskimos, Aleuts and Indians living in Alaska's remote Arctic regions-a pet project on which he had hitherto received not a scintilla of White House encouragement. After voting...
Nevadans, said Democrat Grant Sawyer, host to the conference, favor a strong military posture, but are "upset over the possible fall of the South Vietnamese government that we have supported, and feel that if the government changes and we are asked to withdraw, our position there will be untenable." In neighboring Arizona, reported Democrat Samuel Goddard, public opinion reflects a similar blend of support and concern...
...criticism came from both House and Senate, from Republicans and Democrats-and from no fewer than seven different congressional panels. Mississippi Democrat John Stennis, still smarting from McNamara's curt brush-off last summer of a Stennis report on materiel shortages, announced that his Senate Preparedness Investigating subcommittee is undertaking "an overall assessment of the extent of our military commitments." Alaska Democrat Ernest Gruening, chairman of a Senate Government Operations subcommittee, will examine "unnecessary and wasteful disposals" of surplus military vehicles...
...Shockingly Distorted." Headed by Louisiana Democrat F. Edward Hebert, a hard-knuckled investigative veteran, the subcommittee accused McNamara of being a Pentagon tyrant who uses the word "we" in his testimony only "to hide the essential singularity of the decision-making process in the Department of Defense." Said the report: "The subcommittee was shocked to dis cover that the proposal to phase out of the SAC inventory all B58 aircraft was, as best it could ascertain, an action solely recommended and supported by the office of the Secretary of Defense and one neither recommended nor truly supported...
...understandably loath to inquire into yet another case involving its mores and members. Last week, nonetheless, the world's most exclusive club was faced with two impending investigations. The subject of inquiry this time was no expendable retainer but one of the Senate's own: Connecticut Democrat Thomas Joseph Dodd...