Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Following the September 27 party county conventions, liberals will probably control about forty per cent of the party apparatus--a significant gain over a year ago--and have an excellent possibility of winning a majority in 1970 under the progressive leadership of the Udall brothers--Cong. Morris and retiring Interior Secretary Stewart...
...party "czar" John Bailey in what was--until McCarthy and the war--a very strong and single-minded party which brooked little in-fighting. With a Nixon landslide in 1968 and scandle-ridden hawkish Senator Dodd up for re-election in 1970, the liberals with Senator Ribicoff's leadership may be able to pull off a coup before the 1972 elections...
...Kennedy slate won the May 7 primary defeating a pro-Humphrey slate. Under the Rev. Channing E. Phillips the D.C. anti-Administration--and to a large extent progressive black--forces have taken control of the party. The Phillips leadership will probably join the new Democratic Coalition...
...Southern conservative wing of the party still controls the state. A coalition of the weak white liberal forces and new black leadership may emerge in the not too distant future...
...newly formed and largely middle class Reform Democrats of Maine under the leadership of Bowdoin professor John C. Resenbrink hope to stem the party's growing "complacency and conservatism". The new group represents a real coalition of Kennedy and McCarthy people. Legislative lobbying and the 1970 party elections are the two objectives of the reformers activities. Resenbrink's group will be building at the grass-roots for the next two years in high hopes of taking over the state party. Most observers consider a coup unlikely in a state where labor is still loyal and Senator or vice president Muskie...