Word: senatore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The toughest fight was prompted by Dirksen's son-in-law, Tennessee Senator Howard Baker, who proposed to exempt from the open-housing provision certain privately owned one-family units. Several Republican conservatives, notably South Dakota's Karl Mundt, had demanded the Baker amendment as a condition for...
Nationally, the picture is less clear. Attempts to organize local Rockefeller groups in a dozen or more states continued last week, but there was little overt activity of significance. His supporters in Congress were considering circulating a petition among Capitol Hill Republicans urging him to become an official candidate. However...
Last week stocky, square-jawed-and somewhat square-Fred Harris, at 37 the second youngest U.S. Senator (after Ted Kennedy), achieved national prominence as a result of his influential role within the President's Commission on Civil Disorders. Said a commission staffer: "He was a conscience to all of...
At 26, Harris was a state legislator, and at 33, after finishing fifth in a gubernatorial primary, he won the remaining two years of Kerr's Senate seat by upsetting ex-Governor J. Howard Edmondson (who had appointed himself Senator after Kerr died) in another primary, then edging famed...
For all his storied acumen as a politician, Lyndon Johnson seems incongruously inept at handling his own candidacy for reelection. Last week he waited until 17 minutes before the filing deadline to notify Massachusetts State Democratic Chairman Lester Hyman that neither he nor any stand-in would oppose Eugene McCarthy...