Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington headquarters of the New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Viet Nam, which is helping to sponsor the renewed demonstrations this week, the response to Nixon's speech was: "We told you so." Said John C. Bennett, president of Union Theological Seminary and a protest leader: "President Nixon gave us nothing...
...began lobbying clumsily for Administration programs. He started with the ABM, buttonholing members on the Senate floor, then repeated the mistake in an attempt to get the income-tax surcharge extended for a year. As a wheeler-dealer, he failed ingloriously and provoked a curt civics lesson from Majority Leader Mike Mansfield: "A Vice President should not interfere in Senate affairs regardless of his party. He is not a member of the Senate. He's a half-creature of the Senate and a half-creature of the executive." In recent weeks, perhaps as a result, Agnew has displayed little interest...
Floor debate on the Haynsworth nomination is expected to begin this week. Both sides are careening toward it on a collision course. A head count by Republican leaders last week showed 54 Senators planning to vote against Haynsworth or leaning that way. Only 36 backed the taciturn South Carolinian. Ten remained undecided. To Nixon's chagrin, the opposition included 18 Republicans, among them Minority Leader Hugh Scott, Assistant Leader Robert Griffin and Caucus Chairman Margaret Chase Smith. Haynsworth's chances received a severe blow when Senator Jack Miller of Iowa announced his opposition. It was the first break...
Attorney General John Mitchell, who failed to catch Haynsworth's peccadilloes when he originally screened the judge, was expected to push hard for the confirmation to redeem his own prestige. Nixon men talk of "renewed efforts" on behalf of Haynsworth. House Republican Leader Gerald Ford revealed that he is considering bringing impeachment proceedings against liberal Associate Justice William O. Douglas. Douglas has been criticized for accepting money from a foundation that received some funds from gambling interests. Ford denied any retaliation against Haynsworth foes, but said that the same strict ethical standards applied to Haynsworth should apply...
...Weatherman action, then. was a very serious escalation in the tactics of the anti-war movement. Essentially, it was an act of war-which is a very good term. since Weatherman leader Bernardine Dohrn is fond of saying the Weathermen are "the new Red Army fighting behind enemy lines...