Word: republicanness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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REFLECTIONS UPON A SINKING SHIP, by Gore Vidal. A collection of perceptively sardonic essays about the Kennedys, Tarzan, Susan Sontag, pornography, the most recent Republican presidential convention, and other aspects of what Vidal sees as the declining West...
...campus disorders. The predominantly white Students for a Democratic Society, which has spearheaded many of the campus upheavals, bore the brunt of the Senate attack. Colorado Senator Gordon Allott accused the S.D.S. of a "national conspiracy" to destroy the "peace and dignity of the academic communities." At the Republican Governors conference in Lexington, Ky., House Minority Leader Gerald Ford raised the threat of economic penalties for universities that did not keep order. "If the institutions are not used for the prime purpose of giving higher education," he said, "the taxpayers as a whole will revolt against expenditures-tax monies-being...
During the Johnson era, the Democratic White House courted Illinois Republican Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen with unabashed political passion. He requited the wooing. The Senate Minority Leader helped pass important L.B.J.-sponsored legislation, and in return reaped prominence and prestige. Ironically, Dirksen's influence has declined since the Republicans won the White House. The reason: he is no longer the foremost elected G.O.P. official in Washington, and Republican Senators look to the President for leadership. Now, instead of cooperating, Dirksen prefers to harass the executive branch...
Last week he continued his guerrilla warfare by delaying senatorial consideration of William Brown, Richard Nixon's Republican nominee for the chairmanship of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. While the holding action will not prevent Brown's eventual confirmation, it did embarrass Nixon and anger Senate Republican Whip Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania, the man who had first suggested Brown for the job. Further, Dirksen continued to block the appointment of Dr. John Knowles, director of Massachusetts General Hospital, as an Assistant Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Although HEW Secretary Robert Finch has argued for Knowles, Dirksen...
...resisting these appointments, as well as in opposing the Administration's effort to take postmasterships out of politics, Dirksen is in part mirroring Republican displeasure with the offhand manner in which the White House has been handling patronage-which is all-important to the politicians on the Hill. The pols are angry because in many cases they have not been consulted or even informed of the Administration's decisions. Still, Dirksen is far more vehement than his confreres...