Word: mckeldin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Miller, teaching fellow in economics. He suggests that Republicans concentrate their efforts at the state and local levels and leave the national government to the Democrats. This seems little more than sour grapes, vintage 1964. Finally, the Review has extracted a few remarks from a speech by Theodore R. McKeldin, the Republican mayor of Baltimore. The remarks are innocuous enough, concluding with a quote from Kipling. Perhaps the Republicans have run out of quotes from Lincoln...
...McKeldin did not forget to castigate his opposition after admitting that he needed Democratic support. He said, "Neither Lindsay nor I won because our opponents were Democrats, but because they represented the forces of apathy and inertia...
...McKeldin, who nominated Dwight D. Eisenhower at the 1952 Republican National Convention, surprised his listeners by recalling that he personally supported the late Senator Robert A. Taft. He aided Eisenhower, he said, because he felt Taft's Image as "Mr. Republican" would have proved fatal to the party's chances that year...
Calling Washington "our partner," McKeldin appealed for widespread federal aid to the cities for anti-poverty and urban renewal programs. However, he opposed the construction of high-rise apartments to house displaced slum-dwellers. He noted Baltimore's success in the use of city-owned houses and walk...
...McKeldin commented on the problems of minority groups, particularly the Jews and the Negroes, bewailing the "generations of exploitation and deprivation...