Word: purgee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More significantly, effective impetus for liberal measures is now coming not from just the White House or the Senate, but from the House Democratic caucus. The Democratic Study Group (made up of 125 liberals) initiated the purge against Wattson and Williams; the Administration appears to have maintained strict neutrality. Nor...
Johnson's method, says veteran Democrat Jim Farley, who managed two of F.D.R.'s campaigns but disapproved of the way his boss handled Congress, "has produced both the harmony and the result that already identify it as the soundest approach in a century and a half." Explains Farley...
The Americans in Saigon were not quite sure what to call it. Some spoke of a purge, others of a coup or a semi-coup. Whatever it was, it threatened more than semi-disaster.
Many Governors feared that such a resolution would only serve to dramatize the divisions within the G.O.P. "There's already enough negativism in the party," said Oregon's Mark Hatfield. "I don't think it's a problem of ours," said Massachusetts' Governor-elect John...
If Thurmond was anxious to drum the liberals out of the party, some liberals and moderates were equally eager for a purge of ultraconservatives. Senator Scott, who barely survived the Johnson landslide in his bid for reelection, insisted that "Southern scalawags" and the "hardcore radical right" be thrown out of...