Word: senatore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, normally the mildest of men, was beside himself. "Outrageous!" he stormed. "We are, by our accomplishments, making the Senate look ridiculous, picayune and incompetent to handle the business of the people." The problem, really, was a lack of accomplishments. Repeatedly lacking a quorum, the upper chamber...
Belated Advice. During the debate, the charges raised repeatedly against Fortas in Judiciary Committee hearings were aired anew. No one questioned his legal brilliance. Fortas' opponents complained instead about his status as the appointee of a lame-duck President, and his role in enhancing the Warren Court's...
(7 of 10) confusion. Nixon reiterates that there can be no order without justice, that progress and peace go hand in hand. He goes on from there to attack the Democratic Administration for "grossly exaggerating" the relationship between poverty and crime. Nixon insists that doubling the conviction rate would accomplish...
Four months after her husband's assassination, Ethel Kennedy has settled back into the family's Hickory Hill estate in McLean, Va., to await the birth" of her eleventh child, expected around Thanksgiving. Meanwhile, she keeps busy on new plans to build a nondenominational chapel in memory of...
At the Republican Convention in Mi ami Beach, Graham's official duty was to deliver the closing benediction. But Nixon also invited him to sit in with G.O.P. leaders at a top-level conference to discuss a running mate. Asked his preference, Billy at once suggested Oregon's...