Word: senatore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Untoppled. While the primaries dominate the headlines, the real job of delegate-scrounging goes on in the 36 non-primary states. These states and the four territories command a heavy majority of the delegate votes that will be cast at Chicago-1,568 out of 2,622. And of the...
Cold Cliches. At the end of the first day, prepackaged rhetoric gave way to poignance as Rhode Island's Senator Claiborne Pell asked if it "might be conceivable" that many U.S. allies are correct in their doubts about U.S. strategy. "Well," Rusk replied, "these are questions that one approaches...
Despite the report's lofty assertion that "a Senator is extended an extraordinary measure of trust and confidence not given to ordinary members of society," its very existence testifies that Senators can be, and have been, molded from crumbly clay. A product of more than two years of intermittent...
"Dodd Amendment." The Senate code requires that members report official, quasi-official, political and quasi-political funds raised at testimonial dinners and other such occasions (the "Dodd amendment"). For the first time, the murky area where campaign funds, office and personal expenses meld would be clearly defined and strictly regulated...
No more given to prodigality than his mentor, Senator Harry Byrd (who died in 1966), Godwin is considerably more willing to concede that change is inexorable. When he took office, Virginia's financially starved educational system ranked 38th nationally in dollars spent per pupil, not to mention the illiteracy...