Word: democratizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bayou Bombast. Taylor, retaining his aplomb, betrayed the faintest sign of unease only when Louisiana Democrat Russell Long, the committee's leading supporter of the war, took the floor. After chiding Chairman Fulbright for "making speeches while the witness is answering," Long regaled the committee with pure bayou bombast. "Do you think we are the international bad guy or the international good guy?" he asked. Confronted with this particular blend of jingoism and ingenuousness, the sophisticated Taylor looked as if he wanted to hide. "I hope we are the international good guys," he said with a weak smile...
Donahue has further obstructed the implementation of Governor Volpe's plan by introducing bogus issues into the so-called "Great Tax Debate." The sales tax, he maintains, is really a confrontation between rich and poor, liberal and conservative, Democrat and Republican. And since Massachusetts voters are poor, Democratic, and liberal, the Senator is convinced that they favor his opposition to the bill...
...Representative Prentiss L. Walker, 47, the first Republican elected to Congress from Mississippi since Reconstruction, declared that he would oppose Democratic Senator James Eastland, 61, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Walker will have the back ing of Mississippi's small, well-financed, tightly organized Republican organization, is given an outside chance of beating Eastland by giving Mississippians a choice between a "conservative Republican and a double-standard Democrat...
...Governor Frank Morrison of Nebraska, 60, a Democrat, announced that he would contest the Senate seat held by 'conservative Republican Sena tor Carl Curtis, 60, floor manager for Barry Goldwater at the 1964 G.O.P...
...regardless of party labels, their political views were almost indistinguishable-so much so that the perplexed voters of Manhattan's liberal, sophisticated 17th Congressional District could hardly make up their minds. When the votes were counted last week, Republican Theodore Roosevelt Kupferman won over Democrat Orin Lehman by only 995 votes, 1% of the 95,000 cast...