Clear It with Sid!

Clear It with Sid!

Sidney R. Yates and Fifty Years of Presidents, Pragmatism, and Public Service

Van Dusen, George; Dorf, Michael C.

University of Illinois Press

03/2022

288

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Inglês

9780252086755

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Acknowledgments ix

Prologue 1

Part I. The Crusader, 1949-62

1 The Road to Capitol Hill 5

2 The Class of '49 15

3 "Here Comes This Nice, Good-Looking Guy" 41

4 "The Judgment of Admirals" 55

Part II. Defeat and Comeback, 1962-74

5 Yates for Senate 87

6 To the United Nations and Back 109

7 "This Precious Resource" 115

Part III. The Chairman, 1975-98

8 America's Committee 133

9 Three Years of the Culture Wars 143

10 "The Last Sanhedrin Met in 70 ce" 183

11 The Final Years 215

Epilogue 219

Notes 227

References 251

Index 259

Photographs follow page 69
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Sidney R. Yates; House Appropriations Committee; anti-Semitism; Chicago politics; National Endowment for the Arts; House of Representatives; Jewish Congressmen; bipartisanship; Everett Dirksen; Hyman Rickover; Jake Arvey; Adlai E. Stevenson; 1948 election; 81st Congress; Adolph J. Sabath; Japanese American redress; switchblade knives; Naval anti-Semitism; Paul H. Douglas; Richard J. Daley; 1962 congressional elections; Mary Bain; Supersonic Transport (SST); Anti-Ballistic Missile System (ABM); Appropriations Subcommittee on the Interior; corn for porn; culture wars; Jewish Congressional Caucus; Foreign Operations Appropriations; Jimmy Carter; Tip O'Neill; National Holocaust Museum; Jewish -African American relations; Jews in Congress; American-Israeli policy; Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore; USS Nautilus; Appropriations "Cardinals"