Word: dixiecrats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Plan, Western Europe might never have survived as a community of free, capitalist democracies. A case could be made that the civil rights movement began with Truman's tough, ten-point message to Congress in 1948, which created the Federal Fair Employment Practices Committee. It also created the Dixiecrat movement, which cost him the 39 electoral votes of four Southern states in that year's election...
...harsh line toward civil rights legislation with kid gloves. In last Friday's issue Norman Miller, after discussing Ford's views on race relations, pardoned Ford's attitudes as due mainly to "pragmatism." As House minority leader, writes Miller, Ford, by maneuvering his colleagues, "enabled the GOP to accumulate Dixiecrat IOUs that Mr. Ford could call in on other bills...
...could have run four more miles," puffed Dixiecrat Rebpublican Strom Thurmond, 70, as he finished well back in the pack celebrating National Jogging Day with a two-mile race around the Ellipse in Washington. Old Strom's belief in physical fitness is a Senate byword predating even his 1970 marriage to his second wife Nancy, 26. Rising at 5:30 a.m., the South Carolina Senator jogs about three miles, then does fifteen minutes of calisthenics and follows up during the day with a turn or two with the barbells. Sometimes his colleagues are directly affected by his vigor: Thurmond...
...ghost of Daniel Shays, a veteran of the American Revolution who led a futile rebellion against the propertied founding fathers when they sought to replace the confederation of states with a central government empowered to collect taxes. Shays, says Vidal with obvious approval, sounding a little like a Dixiecrat, "did not want London to be replaced by New York." Still the Property Party, as Vidal calls those who rule the U.S., has also produced remarkable exceptions like Eleanor Roosevelt, the subject of one of the finest pieces Vidal has ever written. He turns what is ostensibly a book review...
...Vice President (Lew Ayres), the victim of a recent stroke, lolls in his wheelchair like an unstrung marionette and proclaims his inability to take office. The torch is passed to Douglass Oilman (James Earl Jones), President Pro Ternpore of the Senate, prompting the Capitol's most prominent Dixiecrat (Burgess Meredith) to snort "the White House doesn't seem near white enough for me tonight...