Word: monroney
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...called the "handful" of Democrats (Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen slyly christened them "living profiles in courage") who had made defeat possible-actually a third of the Senate's Democrats. They included such prominent Democrats as Foreign Relations Chairman William Fulbright, Ace Investigator John McClellan, moderate Liberal Mike Monroney, former Vice Presidential Candidate John Sparkman, and Armed Services Chairman Richard Russell, as well as Hayden, Randolph and Kerr...
...including a telephone call from Kennedy himself. It all failed-and apparently because Randolph was indebted to Kerr for amending a welfare bill so that hard-pressed West Virginia could receive $11 million in aid to dependent children. Thus it was really Democrat Kerr, who also carried Oklahoma Colleague Monroney along with him, who really beat Kennedy...
...bugged him all through the tense (and potentially dangerous) moments of takeoff have only one purpose: to make life more pleasant in those residential areas. But last week representatives of the Airline Pilots Association, and of the engineers who fly with them, were protesting in Washington to Senator Mike Monroney's Aviation Subcommittee. Noise abatement, they argued, may be a blessing to an airport's neighbors; it is a menace to anyone who flies...
...first Democratic conference under the New Frontier. At that meeting, new Majority Leader Mike Mansfield proposed that Vice President Johnson continue in his post as presiding officer of meetings of the Senate Democratic conference. A group of Democrats, including Tennessee's Albert Gore and Oklahoma's Mike Monroney, protested that it meant an invasion by the executive branch...
...delivered a lackluster five-minute speech: "I can assure you, in the '60s, as the U.S. carries the standard of freedom everywhere in the world, we will also be carrying the standard of progress here in Oklahoma." There were some perfunctory pats for Bob Kerr, Senator Mike Monroney and Representative Carl Albert. Then the President snipped a ribbon across the newly completed highway...