Word: democratizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...atmosphere on Capitol Hill has changed since Weaver was first talked of for the job. Democrats, mostly Southerners, had charged earlier that Weaver would use his office primarily to promote racial integration in housing. Senator A. Willis Robertson, the Virginia Democrat and chairman of the Banking
...committee, backing Rivers almost to a man, has decided not to consider any new Pentagon requests until the four subcommittees have completed their work. This will mean a delay for the $12.5 billion supplemental appropriation that the President will request to finance the war in Viet Nam. Rivers, a Democrat and member of military committees for 25 years, says: "I think there are times when the Department of Defense forgets that the Congress exists for reasons other than to provide a blank check. I think the American people will always be willing to pay the price for having too much...
...Willamette) who gave up smoking because he did not want to lead his students into temptation. Hatfield has since adopted a habit that is a lot harder to forsake: running for public office. At 43, he has won five consecutive contests for assorted posts as a Republican in normally Democratic Oregon, is just finishing off his second four-year term as Governor. Since he was barred by Oregon's constitution from seeking a third successive term, Hatfield obviously had to find another way to feed his habit. Last week he announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate seat...
...Governor Harold E. Hughes of Iowa, who rose from a truck-driver's cab and the captivity of alcoholism to become a successful (and abstemious) Democrat in a traditionally Republican state, announced that he will seek a third two-year term rather than try to unseat Republican U.S. Senator Jack
...bound and determined that the boy from Greazy Creek, Governor Orval Faubus, will never again defeat him the way he did in the 1964 gubernatorial race. Faubus has not said whether he will try for a seventh term, but his friends have a feeling that he is the only Democrat in the state who can keep Republican Rockefeller down on the farm...