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REAL POPULISTS: The Proxmire Record . . .
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William Proxmire's 31-year Senate career, now winding down,
peaked early. He says the high point was his arrival in 1957 at
National Airport, where he was greeted as a hero by the Senate's
Democratic grandees whose world he had saved. Because of several
Senate deaths, his unexpected victory in a special election prevented
a 48-48 tie which Vice President Nixon would have broken and enabled
Republicans to organize the Senate.
The day he arrived, when the world was young and Strom Thurmond
was a Democrat, Thurmond was in full flight, conducting a 24-hour
filibuster. South Carolina ...
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; ...Twenty winners won with 90 percent of the vote. In 369 districts...winners got more than 60 percent. And if 55 percent makes a landslide, there were 401 landslides. Today Proxmire is third in Senate seniority...10 senators received 50 percent of the coverage, 20 senators got 68 ...
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; ...year. Asked about remedies, Proxmire said he'll back the SEC idea...that anyone who acquires 5 percent of a company's stock report...instead of the current 10. But, Proxmire said, "I'd make it 15 minutes...know when they acquire 5 percent of a corporation - it costs...40 million to do that." ...
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Proxmire Introduces Insider Bill;Antidote to `White-Collar Crime Wave' Also Targets Takeovers
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Proxmire's memory slips away; Alzheimer's silences Wisconsin ex-senator.(NATION)(CULTURE, ET CETERA)
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; ...Howard Price, THE WASHINGTON TIMES William Proxmire doesn't recall his nearly 32 years of...awards to expose government waste. Mr. Proxmire, 87, resides at Copper Ridge, a long...Americans in nursing homes today, Mr. Proxmire is there because he has Alzheimer's disease...
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AS SENATOR, A TENACIOUS PROXMIRE HAD A GOOD RUN
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WILLIAM PROXMIRE: 1915-2005 SENATOR KNOWN AS FRUGAL, INDEPENDENT HE FOUGHT A LONG BATTLE WITH ALZHEIMER'S.(FRONT)(Obituary)
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; ...government spending projects like the SST supersonic jet. Proxmire first supported the Vietnam War, then strongly opposed...unsuccessful attempts at winning the state's governorship, Proxmire was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1957 in a special...senator made infamous for his communist witch hunts. ...
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WILLIAM PROXMIRE; The man from Wisconsin
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PROXMIRE PREPARED TO 'STEP ASIDE'
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; ...the very few displays in Sen. William Proxmire's office is an ashtray commemorating...Lefthander." "Look at his pitching record," Proxmire says, pointing to a column running down...The ashtray omits the grim ending, Proxmire notes. After Spahn's peak year, "he went...
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Proxmire remembered for humble handshakes; State's leaders recall how longtime senator shaped politics
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