Word: senatore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Constitutionally Tragic. "Never in our history," cried Michigan's Democratic Senator Philip Hart, "has a matter of the nomination of a Justice to the Supreme Court been resolved by a filibuster." But shortly after Hart spoke, the Senate refused to cut off debate on whether it should even take...
After a 1943 flood, Oklahoma's late Senator Robert S. Kerr turned his considerable skills as a cloakroom operator to winning approval for a scheme to tame the river. In 1955 the first major funds were appropriated. From the start, opponents quipped that it would be cheaper to pave...
"Saved!" shouted Joan Kennedy at the press conference. "I have a feeling I came at the right time," said Indiana's Democratic Senator Birch Bayh, who turned up at just the proper moment to rescue her from a tricky question about the Pans peace talks. Joan was in Hoosier...
Mailer is scarcely more sparing of other Democrats. He writes of Senator George McGovern: "A Christian sweetness came off him like a psychic aroma-he was a fine and pleasant candidate but for that sweetness. It was excessive. Not artificial, but excessive, as the smell of honeysuckle can be excessive...
At first Mailer was dismayed at McCarthy's failure to attack Humphrey in debate before the California delegation. Then he came to realize that the Senator was "proceeding on the logic of the saint, as if the first desire of the ONE devil might be to make you the...