Word: ribicoff
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DIED. ABRAHAM RIBICOFF, 87, Connecticut statesman who helped guide a junior Senator from Massachusetts to the White House, becoming a member of John Kennedy's first Cabinet; in New York City. In 1956, as Governor of the Constitution State, Ribicoff suspended 10,346 driver's licenses--compared with 372 in the previous year--to curb speeding; as a Senator, he combatted de facto desegregation in the North. Ribicoff prized civility, but his career was branded by a fiery, televised image of him on the podium at the 1968 Democratic Convention, railing against the "Gestapo tactics" of Chicago's police...
...Civil War." Said Clinton has put more troops in action than any other American president. Said Clinton's administration is one that "gave you a very big tax cut." UNLIKELY HEROES: Al D'Amato, Nancy Kassebaum, John McCain, Warren Rudman, 500 economists and 7 Nobel laureates. George McGovern, Abe Ribicoff, Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56, Robert Byrd, Landell Shakespeare. STOCK PHRASES: "21st century"--At least 16 times "Taxes" or "Clinton tax increase"--28 times 10.5 million new jobs--7 times "Liberal" or "liberal elite"--13 times, including a friendly reference to McGovern Newt Gingrich--5 times Medicare, Medicaid, education, environment...
...remember the splendid ventings of spleen: Taft-backer Everett Dirksen in 1952, thundering down from the podium at Ike-supporter Tom Dewey: "We followed you before, and you took us down the road to defeat!" And Senator Abe Ribicoff in 1968 denouncing "Gestapo tactics in the streets of Chicago!" as Mayor Richard Daley hurled back imprecations that amazed lip readers across the country...
...Vanity Fair, uses that magazine's patented "I was there" narrative style to great effect. An acquaintance of Jackie's in the 1980s, Klein offers a reader vivid glimpses of her, as well as poignant descriptions of how she would ask Kennedy allies, such as former Connecticut Governor Abraham Ribicoff and press secretary Pierre Salinger, to talk to John and Caroline about their father...