Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harriman, a staunch Democrat, had not expected to be asked by Nixon to stay beyond Jan. 20. His deputy, former Under Secretary of Defense Cyrus Vance, will remain in Paris for a month or so to brief Lodge and the No. 2 man, New York Attorney Lawrence E. Walsh, a longtime associate of William Rogers. The delicate business of detecting minuscule wiggles in Hanoi's line, often signaled by a change in the tense of a single verb, will fall to two eminently competent professionals. They are Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Philip Habib, who was Lodge...
...Harvard Professor Hendrik Houthakker, 44, a specialist in international economics, was named to the Council of Economic Advisers. The appointment was applauded by his academic peers. Said Democrat John Kenneth Galbraith, a Harvard colleague: "If you're going to have a conservative, it's good to have a competent...
After a meeting last week, Dixon put his arm around the shoulders of an aide and spoke of the time when, he hoped, all the nastiness would subside. That time may be rapidly approaching. As a controversial political appointee, Democrat Dixon is in a vulnerable position with the Republicans' taking the reins...
...chief champion in the debate was his erstwhile inquisitor, Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel Celler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and head of the special investigatory body that aired Powell's linen two years ago. "Any additional punishment would be vindictive," cried Celler. "It would be Draconian." He challenged the House: "He who is without sin in this chamber, let him cast the first stone. Judge not lest you be judged-particularly with reference to dear ones on the payroll." That capacious euphemism stirred many of Celler's colleagues to private ire but public charity...
Originally a registered Republican, Seamans changed his registration to Democrat so he could vote for his classmate John F. Kennedy '40 in the Congressional primaries. Seamans switched back to a Republican after "it was obvious he no longer needed my help...