Word: ribicoff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Massachusetts' senior Senator, was the obvious and traditional choice this January to lead Teddy up to the rostrum where he signed the oath book and officially became a United States Senator. Nobody felt any embarrassment at this or any of the other unlikely combinations at the rostrum-Dodd and Ribicoff, or Mundt and McGovern-for the ritual expressed silently what Mike Mans-field said after it was over: "Now you are just as important...
...selection. Most of them have passed through a rigorous Darwinian selection of one election after another, but the number of successful traits is surprisingly large. There are people who play the game scientifically, like win simply because they're nice, sincere guys-Kennedy or Dominick; there are people who Ribicoff or Ionize; and there are politicians like McIntyre or McGovern whom fortune has favored...
...special touch was described by Ribicoff, a politician who has it, as "visceral-the ability to get along with people. You'll never learn about it in a government course." Some freshmen, like George McGovern, acquired it: "I used to find handshaking awkward, but now I've developed a special capacity for it;" others took to it immediately. McIntrye has pleasant memories of "going up into the countryside with gals knocking wood with just a chemise," and Dominick proudly tells of the hours he spent "glad-handing" (20 hours a day, 7 days a week by his own estimate). Politics...
...control by the Establishment, which is essentially a personal influence, must be familiar to these men. All of them have been in politics for some time-Ribicoff for 25 years, Inouye for 16, McIntyre for 14, and Kennedy...
...employees are first-rate, and none are high-paid. The commissioner gets only $20,000 a year, compared with $48,500 for the school superintendent of Chicago. Urgent suggestions that the office be made a Cabinet-level department have come from former HEW Secretary Abraham Ribicoff, former Harvard President James B. Conant, and many others, but HEW's new Secretary Anthony Celebrezze wants the improving done "within the present framework...