Word: javitses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Congress, where the quiescent antiwar forces had begun to attack again, was impressed with Nixon's flexibility. Senator Jacob Javits, who the week before had angrily dismissed Nixon's earlier policy as "sterile," called the new statement "a real step on the road to peace." Even Senate Foreign...
Bradley is a registered Democrat, like Yorty, but he has managed to pull together a broad coalition of backers that covers the political spectrum. Endorsements have come from Democrats Ted Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey, Republicans Charles Percy and Jacob Javits, and several top aides of California Governor Ronald Reagan. To...
"All you do is investigate," cried Molly Piontkowski, a diminutive Polish woman, one of 13 angry witnesses who appeared before the committee. "You don't do a damn thing." Asked by Javits if she knew of "people actually suffering from hunger," she replied: "Are you kiddin'? Are you...
Elegantly Tailored. Javits' customary imperturbability did not survive the ordeal. Explaining lamely that he was the son of a poor immigrant in New York's East Side, the portly, elegantly tailored Senator blurted: "I had to eat starch when I was growing up." They booed him. Javits asked...
In the middle of the hearings, twelve members of a local guerrilla theater troupe staged a searing attack on welfare. Ignoring cries of "You can't do this!" from Javits, they portrayed a poor family set upon by welfare officials and harassed by a social worker who carried a...