Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...passage of his programs. He failed to get that gain. Instead, the Democrats will have four fewer seats than they had before the election. The House line-up in the 88th Congress will be 259 Democrats and 176 Republicans. The same conservative Democratic committee chairmen who resisted the New Frontier before will still be there. On the record of the 87th Congress, that spells legislative problems for the New Frontier...
...Minneapolis, rather than just his old Republican wards. In a record off-year vote, Judd led in his old district by 10,860 votes. But in the added wards, he trailed by 16,997. The man who beat him was State Senator Don Eraser, 38, a New Frontier liberal in the tradition of Senator Hubert Humphrey, who campaigned for him, and ex-Governor Orville Freeman, his former law partner...
...uncompromising clash, without any me-too touches to blur the issues: Morton, a former G.O.P. National Chairman, a hard-punching conservative; Wyatt, a founder of Americans for Democratic Action, one of the last of those who might be described as an unmistakable left-winger. The New Frontier made Morton's defeat a principal campaign objective. President Kennedy twice went into Kentucky to campaign for Wyatt. The Administration suffered a second jolt in Kentucky when Democratic Congressman Frank Burke, who had voted down the line for the New Frontier, lost his seat to Goldwater Republican Gene Snyder...
...sweetest situation in politics is to be able to take an issue and run on both sides of it. His voice tolling warnings of doom, Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen, 66, told Illinois voters of the Kennedy Administration's shortcomings. "Oh," intoned Dirksen of the New Frontier, "they've got us moving again, bless you all. But we're moving downhill into the valley of the shadow." Yet in the next days, Dirksen described his palsy-walsy relationship with President Kennedy, both personally and on international problems: "He has been my friend for 14 years. He calls...
...Dwight Eisenhower's Interior Secretary. He came out for a more costly teacher-retirement program, increased funds for the University of Nebraska, a stepped-up highway construction plan. Morrison, a scuffed-shoes-and-red-galluses sort of fellow, made fun of the Kennedy Administration, declined to let New Frontier Democrats come into the state to campaign for him, insisted that Seaton's programs would require a 40% increase in the state's property tax. Nebraska Republicans decided that Democrat Morrison was more conservative than Seaton. Morrison won easily...