Word: thurmond
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Before I came to Washington," Secretary McNamara said last month to Senator Thurmond and a jeering clutch of old ladies wearing "pro-blue" badges, "I was paid $400,000 a year to take responsibility for the second biggest business enterprise in the world. I learned there, and I believe today, that it is not sound management practice to pin the blame on subordinates for responsibilities which are mine...
...government need not be defenseless against the McCarthys and the McCloeds; they are not agents of irresistible currents of history. Adherence to procedures with which every industrial executive is familiar is a useful safeguard against the demoralization of civilian and military officials who believe, as McNamara said after the Thurmond hearings, that the menace of Communism "comes more from Moscow than from...
...Democrats: Nevada's Howard W. Cannon, Wyoming's J. J. Hickey, Florida's George Smathers, Georgia's Herman Talmadge, South Carolina's Strom Thurmond. Republicans: Colorado's Gordon Allott. New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, Maryland's John Marshall Butler, Hawaii's Hiram Fong, Kansas' Andrew Schoeppel, Pennsylvania's Hugh Scott, Texas' John Tower...
...record: 23 hours, held by South Carolina's Strom Thurmond while filibustering against the 1957 civil rights bill...
...whether or not the system by which we elect Presidents needs reforming. The election's graphic illustration of how popular and electoral votes may be disparate has troubled many; such varied political figures as the Senate Majority Leader, Mike Mansfield, Sen. Javits, and Norman Thomas, not to mention Strom Thurmond, have urged extinction of the electoral troglodyte. And even fiercely partisan Kennedy supporters feel qualms about rolling in the New Frontier on a push-cart designed to slow down democratic traffic...