Word: democratizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Critics of Prouty's proposal denounced it as fiscal profligacy. Florida Democrat George Smathers warned that it would "feed the fires of inflation." Asked Rhode Island Democrat John Pastore: "How can we have our cake and eat it too?" Long, who acted as floor manager for the Administration tax bill, objected that the amendment could benefit millionaires as well as paupers. Nonetheless, in an election year, many Senators saw the justice of Prouty's proposal. Watched by lobbyists from the National Council of Senior Citizens in the gallery, they passed the amendment, 45 to 40, with the support...
...snagging on the shoals and stubbing his toes on the rocks of New York politics--and so, supposedly, will be unable to mount a Presidential drive for want of a secure "home base." It is true that the junior Senator will probably not be able to name the Democratic candidate for Governor, who has an excellent chance for defeating Nelson Rockefeller this fall; or choose the man who should fail miserably to defeat Senator Jacob Javits in 1968; or select the Democrat who may or may not be able to beat Mayor John V. Lindsay in 1969. Kennedy will probably...
...modernization, got a great deal more fun out of Sino-American relations. In the privileged status thrust upon them by the treaty system, most Americans enjoyed their contact with China, the chance to be an upper-class foreigner riding in a rickshaw while still remaining an egalitarian grassroots democrat in one's own concience. For an average American to go abroad and find himself a rich man by comparison with the local people is also quite enjoyable. The Chinese were very polite, and countless Americans made warm friends among them. The American people built up a genuine, though sometimes patronizing...
...Administration's noisiest critic, Oregon Democrat Wayne Morse, tacked onto the money bill a prickly amendment proposing that the Senate show its disapprobation of Viet Nam policy by voting to cancel the August 1964 resolution, passed by Congress after the Gulf of Tonkin attacks, that then-and thereafter-authorized the President to take "all necessary measures" against aggression in Southeast Asia. Georgia's Russell countered with his own rider reaffirming the Tonkin resolution. Both were potentially troublesome...
...Oregon, two-term Democratic Representative Robert B. Duncan, 45, entered the race against popular Republican Governor Mark Hatfield for the Senate seat from which Democrat Maurine Neuberger plans to retire at year's end. Duncan accused Hatfield of parroting the anti-war line of Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse, thus adding to "a discordant symphony of dissension and disagreement that can immobilize this country." Despite Morse's warning that "it's going to be difficult to elect any Democrat who runs on a war platform," Duncan is supported by Neuberger and most other leading Democrats...