Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What do a Brooklyn gambler, a Manhattan cop, a Harlem politician, the mother of Massachusetts' Governor and hundreds of civil rights workers from Florida to Mississippi have in common? Answer: all are trying to remove the various criminal charges against them from state to federal courts. They are caught up in a headlong trend that intrigues lawyers, alarms judges, and is certain soon to confront the Supreme Court with some of the thorniest state-federal conflicts in U.S. legal history...
...what has been Kennedy's greatest problem throughout the campaign has been convincing the voter suspicious of a ruthless, power-hungry young politician who has simply chosen New York as a convenient launching pad for his elective career...
...year-old, 5'10" Lieutenant Governor is an astute and consummate campaigner. Superficially, his style is no different from most politicians'. The permanent smile, the "Hello, I'm ----. Remember me at the polls," and the traditional politician's handshake--right hand shaking right hand, left hand holding the elbow. The official explanation for that left hand at the elbow is that it assures the voter that the hand is not in his pocket...
...Logan Airport Thursday night, his long black hair carefully molded around his head, the black velvet collar of his black topcoat soft in the harsh lights. And as he orated to Massachusetts' industrialists, his language at once filled with references to deficit financing and the timeless rhetoric of a politician from the Northwest Territory, he seemed fully capable of standing in a crowded, dimly lit Senate chamber and delivering the reply to Hayne (no doubt as H. Horatio Humphrey...
...destiny, now that a humble pharmacist's son has nearly attained the second highest office in the land. One suspects that in his mind's eye Humphrey no longer sees himself solely as the populist-progressive crusader for the downtrodden, but as the Great Articulator for the Great Politician, the premier national statesman. When his audience snickered at a reference to turning the lights off in the White House, Humphrey stopped, smiled broadly, and replied with something less than complete ingenuousness, "That's the least I can do for my President...