Word: elected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impressed was President-elect Franklin Roosevelt that he decided, even before his inauguration in 1933, to appoint Virginia's Senator Claude A. Swanson as Secretary of the Navy so that Harry Byrd could fill his unexpired term. Though a fervent New Dealer at the time, Byrd was soon disenchanted by F.D.R.'s fiscal policies, principally his failure to make good on a campaign promise to cut federal spending by 25%. Years later, when the U.S. budget had mushroomed to 25 times its pre-Roosevelt size, Senator Byrd noted wryly: "I campaigned for the New Deal platform...
...Ronald Reagan [Oct. 7] is destined for greatness. He is articulate, intelligent, and above all he has imagination, which this country lacks today. I am sure the California electorate will elect a creative Governor...
...estimates that "I could wind up with enough strength to elect myself chairman" of the Assembly. But that, she says, would be "immodest," a repetition of the mistake of Mme. Nhu, who "forgot she was a woman and tried to play like a man." Instead she will settle for deputy chairman, she says, "and a hand in writing the social-justice planks in the constitution...
What Reagan has going for him that Brown does not is a new surface unity in his party and a fervent neo-conservatism among the voters that helped the Republicans elect George Murphy to the Senate...
...Letterhead. Not in California certainly. Pat Brown ran for the state assembly as a Republican in 1928, vowed on becoming Governor that he would follow the illustrious example of Earl Warren and Hiram Johnson, Republicans both. Actor George Murphy, once a New Deal Democrat, was elected to the U.S. Senate as a Republican in 1964. And Ronnie Reagan was once an outspoken Roosevelt-Truman Democrat and A.D.A. activist. As president of the Hollywood Screen Actors Guild, he could not believe that he was being gulled by Communist officials, as he admits today, and himself earned a reputation as a fellow...