Word: hartkee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Indiana--No one in the Senate has survived as many "squeakers" as Vance Hartke, a Democrat from Indiana. He narrowly won his seat in 1958 and in 1970 he defeated then-Representative Richard Roudebush by only 4283 votes. In both cases, the victories were unexpected. Hartke's bag of surprises...
He points out that he reduced property taxes five times during his eight years as mayor of Indianapolis and left office this year with a surplus of $4.5 million. Lately, Lugar, who has a stiff campaign manner, has loosened up his style, shedding his conservative business suits for bright blazers...
Vance Hartke, a U.S. Senator from Indiana who describes himself as one of the first members of Congress to break with the government's Indochina policy, was less reluctant to discuss the lessons of Vietnam. Speaking on the Senate floor the same week that Ford fended off Helen Thomas's...
"Now in the sadness that every American must feel in the face of the pitiful plight of the Vietnamese people," Hartke told his colleagues, "it is clear that Indochina was a drama without villains." However bad, however destructive, however unjustified American Indochina policy may have been, Hartke said, the men...
Mainstream American politicians like Gerald Ford and Vance Hartke are looking for a graceful way to close the books on U.S. involvement in Indochina. The hawks of the war era, men like Ford who wanted to beat back the advance of communism in Southeast Asia, are humiliated by America's...