Word: democratizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Elephant & Mouse. It is no secret that the President puts Senator J. William Fulbright in this category, and true to form, the Arkansas Democrat attacked the Honolulu meeting as "a further obstacle to a negotiated settlement" because it so firmly committed Washington to support of the present regime in Saigon. Fulbright's views were echoed by several anti-Administration witnesses before his Senate Foreign Relations Committee-most notably George F. Kennan, former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow and a leading exponent of the "containment" policy that was designed to defend Europe against Soviet expansionism in the late 1940s...
Blind Spot. Bland persistence is the hallmark of the Arkansas Democrat, who was once denounced by Harry Truman as "that overeducated Oxford s.o.b." But though onetime Rhodes Scholar Fulbright, 60, has long been described as an enigma, the trait that has made him a Senate storm center for two decades is not hard to define...
Then the Senate voted. With 99 Senators on hand-Michigan Democrat...
...treadmill with a bid to wrest his party's nomination for Governor of Pennsylvania from Lieu tenant Governor Raymond Shafer, organization candidate and the choice of Governor William Scranton. Stassen, presidential aspirant in 1948, 1952 and 1964, lost the gubernatorial nomination in 1958, was trounced by Democrat Richardson Dilworth when he ran for mayor of Philadelphia in 1959. He plans to base his campaign on opposition to the war in Viet Nam, vows to make the G.O.P. the "peace party...
...Representative Robert Griffin of Michigan, 42, co-author of the Lan-drum-Griffin Labor Act and one of the most active young Republicans in the House, became a candidate for the Sen ate seat of ailing Democrat Pat Mc-Namara, 71, who is expected to retire...