Word: senlis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bill's sponsor, Sen. Denis L. McKenna (D-Somerville) said last night that he saw "a fair chance" of obtaining the two-thirds senate majority needed to override the veto. If the bill clears the Senate, he added, there is "an excellent chance," that it will win the approval of the House...
Later we learned by rote how Sen. Joseph McCarthy destroyed some people who had been leftists when they were young, and how the white knight Joseph Welch finally destroyed him. But few of us have any real sense of what the man was like. The stakes in the daily debates of the television spectacle that stretched through the early spring months of 1954, and the tension filling the Senate Caucus Room where the Army-McCarthy hearings transpired are, for us, forgotten...
...film proceeds through skirmish after skirmish like this. Some of the figures are familiar: Robert Kennedy, tight-lipped, incessantly drumming a pencil on the table. Sen. John G. McClellan (D.-Ark.) observing with a dry Southern voice what a horrible person Sen. McCarthy was Sen. Stuart Symington (D.-Mo.) whom McCarthy refers to as "Sanctimonious...
...Sen. Barry Goldwater has shown himself a bad tactician in the New Hampshire presidential primary. Now the contest is less than a month away, and although the unprecedented proliferation of candidates has made it so complex that prediction is very risky, a few things seem clear. One is that Barry Goldwater--blundering and outmaneuvered--is running badly behind...
...Presidential succession law ought to be changed now, but if it proves impossible to enact an amendment at this session, Sen. Bayh and his allies should keep trying. The country has learned how important the Presidential succession law is; it should not forget the lesson...