Word: gored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...State of the Union message. He had, with apparent meekness, given in to the demands of a little group of Senate Democratic liberals that he convene party conferences at their beck and call. He had even held onto his temper when one of the liberals, Tennessee's Albert Gore, urged that the power of appointing members of Senate Democratic policymaking committees be taken out of Johnson's hands. In fact, for a few fleeting, fanciful days, the dissident liberals thought that at long last they might even have Texan Johnson on the skids...
Arising on the Senate floor to push his plans for diluting Johnson's powers, personable Albert Gore, 52, pointedly said that "the Senate Democratic Policy Committee should represent all the Democrats in the Senate, not merely one." At that point an equally personable Johnson follower, Florida's George Smathers, 46, testily said that the Senate floor was not the proper place to wash the Democratic Party's "dirty linen." Retorted Gore: "This is not dirty linen. It is simply faulty linen." The open forum of the chamber, said Gore, was a better place to discuss such things...