Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democrat is considered by many to have a pipe-line to the governor and high members of his administration...
This week the Democrats got from Democrat Powell (who bolted to Ike in 1956) the first returns on how the Arkansas mess might sound in political language. Said Powell to his packed Abyssinian Baptist Church in Manhattan: "I must sharply condemn my fellow Democrats for daring to insert politics into this sensitive question. How dare Adlai Stevenson criticize Eisenhower when just eight days before, on a national telecast, he told the national audience that he could do nothing if he was President in the present crisis? . . . And, finally, let's not forget that Faubus is a Democrat...
Last week, despite the mutterings of patronage-bent Republicans, President Eisenhower named Democrat Robert McKinney, New Mexico newspaper publisher (Santa Fe New Mexican), cattleman and corporation director, as the U.S. representative in the 45-nation International Atomic Energy Agency, created to carry out the atoms-for-peace program that the President proposed in December 1953. Patronage problems aside, brainy Bob McKinney, 47, seemed a sound choice for the post. A onetime (1951-52) Assistant Secretary of the Interior, he served ably in 1955-56 as chairman of a top-level citizens' panel set up by the Joint Congressional Committee...
Arizona's Republican Senator Barry Goldwater served public notice that he "certainly will oppose" McKinney's appointment when it comes up for Senate confirmation. But Democrat McKinney can point to a detail that might soften Republican Goldwater's wrath: after the citizens' panel turned in its report on uses of the atom, McKinney handed back $17,000 of the $50,000 that Congress had appropriated for expenses...
Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson last week scratched one important name from the list of 1960 presidential speculations. Said he: "I do not know who the candidate will be, but I have every conviction . . . that it will not be me." But though Democrat Johnson insisted he was "not leaving the door open for any last-minute changes in attitude," one thing was clear. He had not yet thrown the bolt...