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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what he calls a spartan life. Though he spent eight years under a man who was wary of the powers of the office, he declared in a speech on the presidency-one of his best-on Sept. 19: "The days of a passive presidency belong to a simpler past. The next President must take an activist view of his office. He must articulate the nation's values, define its goals and marshal its will...
...were not enough, Humphrey opened his campaign with a wild, disorganized abandon that defied his advance men's efforts to bring out the crowds. Then there were the hecklers, taunting a Vice President who refused to repudiate his unpopular chief and run away from the record of the past four years. Humphrey's personal physician and adviser, Dr. Edgar Berman, complained at one point: "There is no adversity that has not been visited upon this campaign." He was not far wrong...
...Oregon. The Democrats toppled Republicans in California and Iowa. The new Senate will be a little more conservative in dealing with federal spending and controls, civil rights, gun restrictions, crime bills, student disorders and poverty programs. The right-wing coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats, which in the past year won 80% of the votes on the issues it chose to take a stand on, will be even more effective...
...Ethiopia. After World War II service as OWI foreign-lan-guage chief, Cranston became a staunch world federalist, then helped found the liberal California Democratic Council. In 1958 he became California's first Democratic Controller in 72 years. A former Stanford track star, Cranston, 54, easily ran past his Republican opponent, the state's fustian Superintendent of Public Instruction, Max Rafferty...
...voting both incumbents out of office. Republican Manuel Lujan Jr. upset five-term Democratic Representative Thomas G. Morris mainly on the basis of local economic issues. Republican Edgar F. Foreman, 34, overturned Democratic Representative E. S. Johnny Walker, a member of the House Armed Services Committee. In his political past, Foreman has mainly attracted attention by getting into fistfights with political foes. This time he managed to keep his temper...