Word: democratizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fulbright's certitude riled at least one fellow committee member. "We are not a military people," protested Wyoming Democrat Gale McGee, an Administration loyalist on Viet Nam. "I just cannot quite buy the allegation that we have heard here that great military power induces arrogance and self-righteousness. I resent that as an American...
Pavlovicm Cries. Fulbright's intimations of American "arrogance" are based in part on the dog-eared premise that the U.S. would like to remake the world in its image. Indeed, Tennessee Democrat Albert Gore actually asked McNamara whether Washington aimed to establish "an American-type state" in South Viet Nam. "It is our goal," replied McNamara coolly, "to allow those people to choose the form of political institutions under which they prefer to live. I suppose you could conceive of them choosing some form other than a democratic form. If they did, we would adhere to that choice...
...Montana, conservative Republican Governor Tim Babcock, 46, opened his drive for the U.S. Senate against liberal Democrat Lee Metcalf, 55, the incumbent, by buying a $69,000 twin-engined plane for campaigning. Babcock is expected to zero in on Metcalf's record as one of the Senate's leading critics of the Viet...
...Mexico City, vacationing Barry Goldwater reiterated that he "will not be a candidate for the presidency" in 1968 but announced plans to run in that year for the Senate seat held by Democrat Carl Hayden...
...away a lot of regulatory cobwebs, irritated two U.S. Presidents, feuded with much of the industry he regulates, and bickered with every other federal body involved in bank supervision: the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Justice Department. Last week Arkansas Democrat John L. McClellan and his Senate investigation subcommittee lit into Jim Saxon-who naturally lit right back into McClellan...