Word: democratizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...White House entertains a visiting head of state. Nonetheless, William Fulbright has been a conspicuous absentee from Lyndon Johnson's last three dinners for foreign dignitaries. Though Fulbright returned to the U.S. Dec. 13 from a less-than-triumphant trip Down Under (TIME, Dec. 13), the Arkansas Democrat was not even sent an R.S.V.P. to the White House banquets for Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson or West Germany's Chancellor Ludwig Erhard...
...Democrat Whelan is already being mentioned as a candidate to run against New Jersey's popular Republican U.S. Senator, Clifford Case, who comes up for re-election in 1966. Whelan has been realistic enough to win the support of Jersey City's present Democratic boss, John V. Kenny-even to the point of naming Kenny's son-in-law to a $20,000-a-year post as administrator of the city medical center. In a campaign against Case, Whelan's pitch would be his familiarity with the problems of New Jersey's cities. "The ills...
...Republican Governor George Romney looked unusually relaxed for a man who had just succeeded in antagonizing three of the pressure groups that politicians court most assiduously-veterans, parents and old folks. It was quite a feat all the same, since it involved a considerable victory over Michigan's Democrat-dominated legislature...
...Republicans now hold elective public offices in Alabama, not counting mayors or aldermen, who run mostly in nonpartisan municipal elections. So confident is the state's G.O.P. organization that it plans to field candidates next year not only for the U.S. Senate seat held since 1946 by Democrat John Sparkman, but also for every major state office as well...
...Republicans' biggest allies has been lackadaisical Democratic state leadership. In Georgia, when Democrat Carl Sanders became Governor in 1963, only 30 of the state's 159 counties had active Democratic county committees. The state organization did not even have an office or staff. Though Sanders quickly corrected both situations, Lyndon Johnson lost Georgia by 93,443 votes...