Word: senatore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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It was another opening that Humphrey quickly exploited-particularly because of the image it conveyed of the Republican Party as the representative of Wall Street fat cats. "Mr. Nixon," he said, "would encourage those same speculative excesses that once before plunged this country into chaotic depression and brought vast losses...
Cleansing Operation. Walsh was an exception. In Philadelphia, Green's son, Congressman William Green III, has been fighting a losing battle against Tate's effort to purge the party of in dependent-minded, younger men. Green was a Kennedy backer before the Senator's assassination. Tate and...
Councilman Peter Flaherty of Pittsburgh admits: "A lot of people dissatisfied with the party here really don't feel that a Democratic loss this time would be a such a bad thing. They'd regard it as a cleansing operation." Humphrey, suffering from association with the old-line...
The wonder is that McGovern, 46, was so far ahead to begin with. He is only the third Democratic Senator in South Dakota's 79-year history. Only 38% of the voters are registered Democrats McGovern's demands for a softer line on the Viet Nam war ran...
In 1962, after serving briefly as John Kennedy's Food for Peace director, McGovern won election by a bare 597 votes (out of 254,319). He has since sought to ensure his popularity by fighting for stable farm prices and greater investment by industry to stem the drain of...