Word: magnuson
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...pledged to reverse the tone and direction that have prevailed in Washington for almost half a century also retired such noted liberal Democratic Senators as Birch Bayh in Indiana, George McGovern in South Dakota, Frank Church in Idaho and John Culver in Iowa. Even Washington's Warren Magnuson, a fixture in the Senate since 1944 and No. 1 in seniority among all 100 Senators, went down to defeat. In the House, powerful Ways and Means Chairman Al Ullman got the ax, as did Indiana's John Brademas, the majority whip...
...give them control of the chamber for the first time since 1954. And victory was all the sweeter since the election toppled most of the Senate's leading Democratic liberals: George McGovern in South Dakota, Frank Church in Idaho, Birch Bayh in Indiana, John Culver in Iowa, Warren Magnuson in Washington, Gaylord Nelson in Wisconsin, and John Durkin in New Hampshire. Only a few liberals managed to keep their seats: California's Alan Cranston and Missouri's Thomas Eagleton won easily, while Colorado's Gary Hart barely beat back his Republican challenger, Mary Estill Buchanan...
...liberal Democratic leaders, including Sen. Birch Bayh (D-Ind.), Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho) and Sen. Warren G. Magnuson (D-Wash.)--who head the Senate Intelligence, Foreign Relations and Appropriations committees, respectively--all fell to GOP challengers...
...Island 4 Joseph Garrahy Vincent Cianci South Carolina 8 Emest Hollings Marshall Mays South Dakota 4 George McGovern James Abdnor Tennessee 10 Texas 26 Utah 4 Daniel Berman Jake Gam Scott Matheson Bob Wright Vermont 3 Patrick Leahy Stewart Ledbetter Jerome Diamond Richard Snelling Virginia 12 Washington 9 Warren Magnuson Slade Gorton James McDermott John Spellman West Virginia 6 Jay Rockefeller Arch A. Moore Wisconsin 11 Gaylord Nelson Robert Kasten Wyoming 3 TOTAL: 538 *Jacob K. Javits, Liberal Party Incumbents listed in bold type (needed...
Nevertheless, Gorton, 52, is running almost even in the polls with Magnuson, partly because of an issue that he tends to run around rather than confront directly: the incumbent's age. The Republican organized a 62-mile relay run from Seattle to the state capital of Olympia to file his election papers, running nine of the miles himself. The contrast with the portly Magnuson, who now walks with a shuffle and has a hearing problem, was obvious. Seated in his state office, surrounded by pictures and mementos of the eight Presidents with whom he has served, Magnuson says...