Word: programers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Change? The people, said Clark, had given the Democrats "a mandate to write a Democratic program ... I suggest it is our responsibility to write that kind of program and send it to the President today, next week, and every week until this Congress adjourns, and to come back and do it all over again at the second session." To capture the White House in 1960, Clark said, the party would need to write a Democratic record. "If the people cannot detect any difference between the parties, why should they wish to make a change...
Illinois' Paul H. Douglas, another outspoken advocate of big-spending welfare programs, rose to "agree with the Senator from Pennsylvania." Also chiming in: Wisconsin's William Proxmire, Oregon's Wayne Morse and Minnesota's Hubert H. Humphrey, who promised the farm belt an entirely "new" Democratic farm program, which is now discreetly buried in Humphrey's desk...
...came through with banners waving. He pushed through a state FEPC, abolished the oddball cross-filing system for party primaries, organized down-to-smokestack antismog attack, raised taxes enough to trim a threatened $201 million deficit to $5,000,000, launched a long-dreamed-of $2 billion waterway program to deliver Northern California's water to Southern California's arid, sunny region (TIME, June 29). He gained effective control of a divided party, has cagily chaperoned visiting would-be nominees, giving none a chance to sneak around his favorite-son "off-limits" sign...
Connecticut's Abraham A. Ribicoff, 49, onetime police-court judge and Congressman (1949-53), has gained impressive stature in his five years in office, pushed a broad reform program through the now Democratic legislature. He got a balanced budget (but slid from a 1957 surplus of $32.3 million to a deficit this year of $10.5 million), court reform, a tough law on automatic suspension for convicted speeders, a tourist-luring ad campaign, abolition of the 300-year-old county-government system. A Jew, he has since 1956 gone into other states-last week into California...
Colorado's Stephen L R. McNichols, 45, a cold-eyed, dollarwise, Western type who got most of his program t including model plans for aid to the aged, mental health and state highways) through the Democratic legislature. Although on the Democratic Advisory Council, he plumps mostly for such Western causes as reclamation projects, has much regard for Texan Lyndon Johnson's ideas. One of the West's able Catholics, he has upped his vice-presidential lightning rod, demands party attention to his region. Says he: "We have votes as well as political savvy...