Reply #54: "That would make you a Rockefeller Republican."

[SaveElmer]

I associate myself with the philosophy of a man who said in 1948 at the Democratic convention...

To those who say, my friends, to those who say, that we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say to them we are 172 years late!

To those who say, to those who say that this civil-rights program is an infringement on states' rights, I say this: the time has arrived in America for the Democratic party to get out of the shadow of state's rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights!

A man who was the originator of the proposal that later became the Peace Corps.

A man without who the 1964 Civil Rights act would not have been enacted...

A man without whom the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty may not have been adopted...

A man whose original idea for medical insurance for the elderly was eventually adopted when he was Vice-President...a little program known as medicare!

You can ascribe any label to him you like...but he was a Democrat's Democrat...and a great man!