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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...
Certainly he was as nimble and tricky a performer on the teeter-totter board of Communist politics as the world has seen. He was unique in being allowed to live abroad most of the time between World Wars. Back in Russia during World War II, he was Stalin's...