Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When I witness Republican leaders [May 2], such as Finch and Nixon, supporting, and even augmenting types of public assistance which the G.O.P. would clearly have labeled "Communistic" 25 years ago (some yet do so) I have renewed faith that the world is becoming a more humane place. However, I wonder if these programs, and the people they were designed to help, might not be much better off today if the Republicans had come to their aid earlier with the same verve and enthusiasm...
...very obvious. The President of the United States lives essentially an isolated life. He has people around him. He has to depend on them to give advice, to see that he makes no untimely mistakes, to shield him from many things. I'd be an awfully poor Republican leader if I were not willing to shield the President of the United States from people I feel do him no good and could do him harm...
...into a denunciation of Fortas. The Justice later distinguished himself in three court sessions, only to face more virulent-and effective-opposition last year when Johnson selected him to succeed Earl Warren as Chief Justice. Partly because of conservative disgruntlement with Fortas' liberal record and partly because of Republican confidence that the G.O.P. would shortly be able to name the Chief Justice, the nomination bogged down in an acrimonious Senate filibuster. Johnson finally withdrew Fortas' name...
Young Barry had certainly been right, as it turned out, to enter a special election for Congress. Last week he handily beat Democrat John K. Van de Kamp, 64,675 to 48,933, in a runoff in California's 27th District to replace Republican Ed Reinecke, who took over as the state's Lieutenant Governor when Robert Finch moved to Washington as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. The sprawling 27th now stretches from suburban Los Angeles northward to rural Kern County. Young Barry ran far ahead of his father's 1964 showing in the district...
...Washington, the Goldwater team will join Capitol Hill's other family acts, including Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington and his guitar-strumming Congressman son James and Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen and his son-in-law, Republican Senator Howard Baker of Tennessee. Goldwater and Son promises to be the most cohesive of the family firms in politics. "We sound alike, and basically we think alike," said the new Congressman. "Maybe we shouldn't be so much alike. But we just...