Word: democratizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HOMER?!" A distinguished Democrat could hardly believe the news that Lyndon Johnson had nominated his friend of two decades, William Homer Thornberry, 59, to the Supreme Court. Equally incredulous was a clutch of conservative Republicans, who saw the nomination as a political payoff to an old crony whose judicial credentials fall somewhat short of the standards demanded by the nation's highest court...
...Difference. Despite Richard Nixon's long lead in the delegate count (see box), Rocky was drawing big and often enthusiastic crowds. Encouraged by last week's Gallup poll showing him trailing Democrat Eugene McCarthy but leading both Hubert Humphrey and Nixon, the Governor told a Boston press conference: "I was just flying over your race track and I saw the horses coming into the stretch. If I could get into the lead in the stretch, believe me, that would be tremendously helpful." In Maine, he reminded audiences that he had been born in Bar Harbor and cried...
Capitalizing on Congress' receptive mood, Connecticut Democrat Thomas Dodd's Juvenile Delinquency Subcommittee voted unanimously to send the President's bill banning mail-order sales of rifles and shotguns to the Senate Judiciary Committee, which will tackle the issue this week. The House Judiciary Committee, which deadlocked 16 to 16 on the Johnson bill only two weeks ago, passed it by a 29-to-6 vote...
Everett-on-the-Spot. Most significant was the soul-searching among Senators, many of them Western liberals who have long bowed to N.R.A.-generated pressure and opposed effective controls. Washington Democrat Warren Magnuson, who as chairman of the Commerce Committee helped bottle up the Dodd bill after J.F.K.'s assassination, said he would now vote for a ban on the mail-order sale of all guns because of "the violence and terror surging through the streets of every county and every state." Democrats William Proxmire and Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, Edmund Muskie of Maine, Mike Monroney of Oklahoma and Republican...
With the graven mien of a frontier gambler who has peeked at his opponent's hole card, the Arkansas Democrat has stood pat against Lyndon Johnson - himself the master emeritus of Capitol Hill poker - matching imperturbably the President's wiles, threats and blandishments for 1 6 weary months...