Word: democratizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fought Back." In his weeks of patient, plodding work on the bill, Morgan only once lost his temper. That was after Arkansas Democrat William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, urged that economic and military aid be handled as separate bills. The Administration sent Morgan a 68-page draft that went at least part way toward appeasing Fulbright. To Morgan, that was murder: he was convinced that many Congressmen would seize upon separate bills as an opportunity to kill economic aid altogether. "I fought back," he says. "I told the President point-blank that the day you take...
Throughout the debate, it was apparent that the forces of the segregationist South were beaten-and knew it. "The way things are," North Carolina Democrat Sam Ervin said wryly, "I don't think I could even get a denunciation of the Crucifixion in the bill." When Georgia's Richard Brevard Russell, field general for the segregationists in a dozen civil rights battles of yore, returned to the Senate chamber from a long illness the day before the cloture motion came to a vote, he needed no more than a glance to see that the cause was hopeless...
...answer. Next day Williams got up again. Neither Rules Committee Chairman Everett Jordan, a stodgy North Carolina Democrat, nor any other committee Democrats were there. Said Williams: "The members of the majority thus far have not seen fit either to repudiate or to repeat the allegations. Do they have the guts to stand up and support them...
...Once back in Houston, back to his wearing schedule, back to the demands of days filled with life-and-death decisions, DeBakey will return to the medico-political battles that he never shuns. A progressive Democrat and an acquaintance of President Johnson, DeBakey favors the use of federal funds for medicine. "The Federal Govern ment," he says, "has already put a lot of money into medicine, and every physician in the United States is better off for it-better off than he ever was before...
...college degree (even a Ph.D.) has long ago ceased being enough, and even college professors are by no means automatically intellectuals. Many of the touchstones, used not only by the public but often by intellectuals, are part of folklore, fashion, even caricature. Given the same amount of education, a Democrat is apt to be considered an intellectual, but not so a Republican. Some labor leaders used to be intellectuals ex officio, but not any more. Politicians, even with academic degrees, are almost automatically out, unless they write books and are markedly liberal...