Word: javitses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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New York's Jacob Javits, an able Senator and prodigious vote getter, would have been glad to be the nation's first Jewish Vice President. But a highly conservative Republican presidential candidate probably wouldn't want him, a red-hot liberal wouldn't need him, and...
Now Javits has decided that it isn't going to happen. For one thing, a man simply does not actively seek the vice-presidency, and Javits concluded that he was making himself look a little foolish. The vice-presidency "is no longer a hot subject," he said in an...
Javits gamely insists that he and Rockefeller still consider Romney the best moderate candidate. "We have no fallback position," he said. "There are no alternatives." None, that is, unless Romney happens to stumble. Then Javits would not have to look far for an alternative-namely, Nelson Rockefeller.
Following the doctors' testimony, the Senators confronted Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman and other officials with demands for immediate relief measures. Sen. Jacob Javits (R-N.Y.) asked that a state of emergency be declared in Mississippi. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy (D-N.Y.) called for a Public Health Service...
The heated session came to a boil when Freeman and Javits started yelling at each other about whether or not the Administration bureaucracy had "broken down," as Javits charged.