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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...graduated from New York's rigorous Horace Mann School at 16 with varsity letters in wrestling and football while also editing the school newspaper. The Chapel Hill campus of the University of North Carolina became the next stop. University President Frank Graham remembers Lowenstein's reorganization of the student government which allowed Negroes like Flody McKissick, for the first time, to be elected to the student council; it made the young New York boy's name one of the best known on campus...

Author: By Robert M. Krim, | Title: Lowenstein: The Making of a Liberal 1968 | 1/8/1968 | See Source »

...record $1 billion, poverty funds by $300 million, model cities by $350 million. The rent-supplements program was practically shrunk out of existence from $40 million to $10 million. Despite Congress' fractious mood, however, Johnson did get a number of other bills past Capitol Hill's axmen, most notably: expanded air-pollution control, a consular treaty with Moscow, an outer-space treaty, the first meat-inspection program since Upton Sinclair's exposes inspired a similar bill in 1906, and a major increase in social security benefits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: Lyndon B. Johnson, The Paradox of Power | 1/5/1968 | See Source »

What chiefly disquieted Capitol Hill as the fighting dragged on was the fact that the U.S. has never formally declared war in Viet Nam, and that Johnson never sought congressional approval of the conflict beyond the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: Lyndon B. Johnson, The Paradox of Power | 1/5/1968 | See Source »

After 24 years on Capital Hill, Hickenlooper became the second veteran Republican in as many weeks to announce that he would not run in '68. Earlier, Kansas' Senator Frank Carlson, 74-who, with Hickenlooper, has been one of the Foreign Relations Committee's minority of supporters of the U.S. stand in Viet Nam-said that he would retire after his third term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Resignation & a Race | 1/5/1968 | See Source »

Hickenlooper's career on the Hill was one of conservative caution, attuned to what he felt was the attitude of the folks back home. He argued or voted against the 1964 civil rights bill, the Peace Corps and Medicare. He had been critical of Wisconsin's Senator Joseph McCarthy in the ideological wars of the 1950s and had maintained a moderate internationalism on the Foreign Relations Committee-even up to the neo-isolationist present. Asked recently by President Johnson what was wrong with the committee, Hickenlooper said: "There are 19 men on it and they represent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Resignation & a Race | 1/5/1968 | See Source »

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