Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Congressional procedural reform can be argued from an abstract point of view: a favored set of procedures is more "democratic", or more "responsible", or more "legitimate" than others. But, like other aspects of political philosophy, the abstract proposal is usually strongly related to the substantive interests of its advocate...
...ability of the Democratic Study Group (an organization of liberal Congressmen) to pass a number of reforms in the Democratic caucus and in the House this January brought a good deal of attention to Congressman Bolling's House Out of Order, a book written to urge passage of similar reforms. This book was especially interesting because Bolling had never been a whole-hearted supporter of reform, and his relationship with the DSG had been a curiously ambivalent...
...death, Bolling tried to remain in the establishment by running for the majority leader's position but withdrew when it became obvious that he would be beaten by Carl Albert. Realizing that he would no longer occupy a favored position with the establishment, Bolling turned more unreservedly to reform and the DSG. This was a reflection either of luck or an instinct for power that originally led Bolling into Rayburn's inner group, for reform and liberalism are becoming more powerful and fashionable--the DSG now has over 100 members...
...struggle in Viet Nam is a "civil war" and the U.S. has no right to interfere. Certainly, there are elements of a civil war present. Many Viet Cong are not hard-line Communists but nationalistic and social revolutionaries whose aims include land reform and reunification. But as elsewhere, the local revolution has been captured by Communism. The Viet Cong have some autonomy, but they are trained, directed and supplied by North Viet Nam. In the Communist rebellions in Greece and Malaya, for example, almost identical arguments were heard; these were called civil wars in which the U.S. was supposedly backing...
...Wessin y Wessin helped stop the Armed Forces Secretary from overthrowing the seven-man civilian Council of State that administered the country after Trujillo. A year later, he led a coup to depose the country's newly elected President, Juan Bosch, whose promises of reform won wide praise but whose attitude toward Communists was highly permissive. Bosch declared an amnesty for all exiles, permitted scores of far leftists to return from Cuba and Europe?"the better to watch them," he said. When Bosch refused to restrict the Communists' right to travel and even allowed trips to Cuba, Wessin...