Word: hart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Best? President-elect Jimmy Carter suggested that 1976 could be viewed as a turning point, a watershed in Americar history. Making generalizations about American politics is a risky thing, even with the benefit of hindsight. Nonetheless, three events of the past month--the death of Michigan Senator Philip Hart, the election of Senator Robert Byrd (D-W. Va.) as Senate Majority Leader, and the announcements of Carter's cabinet nominations, especially those of Griffin Bell for Attorney General and Harold Brown for Secretary of Defense--suggest some of the critical choices confronting congressional leaders and some desirable solutions...
...Phil Hart was a quiet man. His voice rarely shook the rafter or rang in the galleries of the Senate. Yet in many ways he was the most important man in the Senate, a constant reminder to his colleagues, an example of what they were supposed to be and so rarely were. And they recognized it. As a fellow senator once said, "His mere presence on the floor could sway votes." His colleagues knew that Hart was a man who voted his conscience, no matter what the political risks, and that his positions often represented those they should be taking...
Perhaps the most important piece of legislation for which Hart was responsible was the Voting Rights Act of 1965, later characterized by Jimmy Carter as the best thing that ever happened to the South. Although Lyndon Johnson's impassioned speech in favor of the bill is usually credited with securing passage of the Voting Rights Act, it was Hart, according to Clarence Mitchell of the NAACP, who played the critical role in persuading Sen. James Eastland (D-Miss.), the chairman of the Judiciary and a strong opponent of the bill, to report it to the full Senate which then passed...
Died. Philip A. Hart, 64, Democratic Senator from Michigan who, in his 18 years on Capitol Hill, became known as "the conscience of the Senate"; of cancer; in Washington. Hart was sponsored in politics by his University of Michigan Law School classmate, G. Mennen Williams, under whom he served two terms as Lieutenant Governor. After his election to the Senate, Hart was alternately attacked and applauded for his progressive leadership. He served as floor manager for the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the 1968 Civil Rights Act, as a sponsor of almost every major consumer bill...
...Radcliffe came back tough to save the game. First, Kathy Fulton scored two and with the clock running out Hart notched a three-point play and a game-ending layup to bring her scoring total to 20 points...