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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...originating major legislation. During the relatively quiescent Eisenhower years, Sam Rayburn in the House and Lyndon Johnson in the Senate provided strong party leadership, giving the opposition Democrats a measure of cohesion and guidance. Speaker John McCormack and Senate Leader Mike Mansfield offer no comparable direction today. Illinois Democrat Roman Pucinski complains: "The Speaker never intended to be the party leader, and he doesn't seek it. The D S G. [Democratic Study Group, a liberal COalition] has fallen apart. The Southern bloc is without a leader. A legislative vacuum is developing...
From his desk, Hofer looked up, pointed across his office, and said, "That is my favorite thing here. it is a cast from the British Museum hear of Hypnos, which is Graeco-Roman, and underneath it is written in Greek what was over the Alexandrian Lirarv: 'A healing place for the soul.' That just gives me peace when I feel. . . well, wouldn't that give you peace...
...young, the bettereducated, the relatively affluent who reflect the most liberal views. One surprising fact is Harris' finding that 64% believe that abortions should not be a matter of law but should be left to the prospective parents and their doctor; even a 60% majority of Roman Catholics agree. Other results...
Fielding practically ignores sightseeing: he dismisses the Louvre in five lines, the Prado in six, and his main reaction to Roman ruins is that "there's a permanency about...
...Hines called Forman's manifesto "calculatedly revolutionary, Marxist, inflammatory, anti-Semitic and anti-Christian." The Forman plan, added the General Board of the Disciples of Christ, implies "an ideology we cannot accept and a methodology we cannot approve." Forman also got a polite but unequivocal rebuff from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York and Jewish organizations opposed the reparations plan but favored "massive Government aid." Even Negro church leaders expressed skepticism over Forman's demands. The Black Manifesto, said Rev. J. H. Jackson, president of the National Baptist Convention U.S.A., Inc., the nation's largest Negro...