Word: southerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...really impressed," a Law School politico said last week after talking with U.S. Senator William B. Spong Jr. (D-Va.). "I never realized a Southern politician could be articulate...
...knowledgeable discussions of the South's economic growth and Virginia's rapid urbanization show that he is quite different from the rural bosses who built their power in the South on segregation, economic stagnation, and a restricted electorate. The freshman Senator likes to emphasize his break with traditional Southern politics by exclaiming, with feigned astonishment and a trace of pride, "Why, did you know that I'm the first Virginia Senator ever elected from a city...
ALTHOUGH Spong has voted with the Southern bloc on tactical moves concerned with the civil rights bill now pending in the Senate, he hopes to cast the South's first vote for passage of a civil rights measure, but only if the open housing provision is deleted from the bill...
Fulbright or anyone else, will not be inclined any time soon to accept the Administration's version of events-as it did when it approved the Tonkin Gulf Resolution. From his isolated position of a year ago, Fulbright is emerging as a leader of the Senate naysayers. The "Southern Barons" are with him because they are fundamentally opposed to presidential power, while the Northern liberals are with him because they oppose the war. It is a formidable combination...
Others see him as more of a Mephisto, who is intent on denying either major challenger a majority of the electoral vote. He could then swap his support for a "covenant"-as he calls it-with the candidate who agrees to advance his policies. Besides the predictable Southern vote, Wallace hopes to get a big chunk of the Goldwater Republican and dissident Democratic vote in the North. Historically, the odds are against his achieving the goal he seeks; only twice has an election been deadlocked and decided by the U.S. House of Representatives. The last: in 1824, when John Quincy...