Word: headway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Four Hopefuls. With congressional Democrats conceding in advance that their party cannot hope to make much political headway by fighting Ike, the prospect looms that the fiercest battles on Capitol Hill this session will be fought not between Democrats and Republicans, but between Democrats and Democrats. A bitter intraparty fight seems certain to break out when the liberal Democrats, notably Presidential Candidate Hubert Humphrey (see Democrats), push for a civil rights bill. And the session will doubtless see many a cloakroom plot and fierce skirmish as the Senate's four presidential hopefuls-Texas' Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson...