Word: javitses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Fulbright's fulminations exhausted even the legendary patience of some of his Senate colleagues. In a floor speech, New York Republican Jacob Javits finally expostulated that when Fulbright alleges that U.S. policy grows out of an "arrogance of power," he "challenges the very foundations and motives of U.S. policy...
In electing John Kennedy their first Roman Catholic President, U.S. voters swatted down the WASPish fetish that religion is automatically a criterion for presidential or vice-presidential candidacy. The Republicans may give tradition a further gig in 1968. Michigan Governor George Romney, a Mormon, is one of the most promising...
Jack Javits is New York's champion vote-getter of either party. He has won seven consecutive elections-four for the House, one for the office of state attorney-general and two for the U.S. Senate-beating his last opponent, James B. Donovan, with a plurality of nearly a...
For all that, he has not been seriously discussed for national office. One reason is that Governor Nelson Rockefeller, a fellow liberal, has managed to pre-empt the title of Mr. Republican in New York, and in 1960 and 1964 tried his best to get the G.O.P. presidential nomination. Javits...
Our tape of the lecture shows that Mr. Roosevelt actually said. "Javits would probably be better off with a Democratic governor, so that he could be top dog, just as some people say Bobby Kennedy is better off with a Republican in Albany--but I don't believe it, and...