Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the war, Democrat Harry Truman named Republican Strauss to the brand-new Atomic Energy Commission under Chairman David Lilienthal. Strauss soon started finding himself on the minority end of 4-to-1 AEC decisions. Unable to persuade his fellow AEC commissioners to set up a system to detect Soviet atomic tests, he sidestepped them by taking his case to friends at the Pentagon. When the detection system, set up at Strauss's urging, picked up radiation from the Soviet Union's first atomic explosion in September 1949, Strauss, proven man of scientific foresight, set off another minority...
...feelings hurt because nobody at the convention had paid him much attention, he rode back to Washingtonton the same train, no longer a Republican. In October he made it official, declared himself an "Independent." Two years later, the Independent Party having picked up no followers, Morse declared himself a Democrat, was re-elected to the Senate in 1956 on the Democratic ticket. He left behind him an Oregon Republican Party shattered by factionalism for which he was largely responsible. Last week he seemed ready to do the same to the Democrats...
Morse's Democratic affiliation once seemed the beginning of a fine friendship. In 1954 Morse effectively stumped Oregon for Fellow Liberal Democrat Richard...
...back in Oregon, Democratic leaders blanched in dismay. Wayne Morse had left the G.O.P. in wreckage. Now, as a Democrat, he was proposing to blow his latest party wide open. Said a top Oregon Democrat distractedly: "This is harmful to the party. There's a hard core for Neuberger and a very hard core for Morse. But what the hell about the middle? It gets down to this: What good can come out of this for the party...
...Foretaste. Behind this startling about-face stretched a recent history of unaccustomed vacillation. Fearful that popular Socialist Carlo Schmid might win the presidential elections scheduled for July 1, Christian Democrat Adenauer three months ago tried to press his own party's presidential nomination on pudgy, cigar-chomping Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, the "engineer of the German economic miracle." When Erhard, with the support of Christian Democratic backbenchers, refused to let himself be kicked upstairs, it marked the first successful defiance of Adenauer in his own party...