Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senator Bilbo's seat in Washington. That was no easy job. I lost the election -but it wasn't because I wasn't speaking in every little town in Mississippi." Says White today: "My health is perfect-couldn't be finer." Another governor, Colorado Democrat Ed Johnson, had a heart attack last September, has since resumed most of the duties of his office, while Texas' Democratic Senator Lyndon Johnson is again a man in motion after a severe coronary last July. Johnson has every expectation of returning to his post as the Senate...
...Arkansas Democrat John Mc-Clellan, the investigators said they hoped frankly that gentle Hugh Cross, hitherto a highly reputable public servant, would resign. Hugh Cross decided last week not to stay and fight. In a letter of resignation to President Eisenhower, he called the still-fuzzy charges against him "baseless." Wrote he: "I am realistic enough to know that, unfounded as they are, the mere pendency of such charges impairs my further service on the commission and its proper functioning in the public interest." Replying that he appreciated "the years of diligent service you have rendered." the President accepted star...
...Disaster insurance to protect our people from the ravages of nature." Democrat Johnson had designed his election-year program, he said, to show the voters that "ours is the party with a heart." His skillful formulation was welcomed by most of his fellow Democrats...
...also took in hand Johnson's own powerful .300 Magnum rifle with a telescopic sight and brought down a ten-point buck deer, at 309 paces, with a bullet right through the heart. Exulted Democrat Johnson: "The best deer killed in this part of the country this season!" Later, spic and span except for a spot of blood on his khaki pants, Hunter Kefauver met newsmen with his feat in his mouth, neatly tied the story in with his White House yearnings: "If I get down and start seeking [the presidential nomination], I hope I have that same sort...
Dean Acheson, in A Democrat Looks at His Party, offers not so much a policy as a prologue to a policy. As Secretary of State at the height of the Cold War's intensity, Acheson uses his wit and acumen to analyse the underlying assumptions of U.S. foreign affairs under President Truman...