A year ago today, when the Democrats were fretting and frolicking in Los Angeles and John F. Kennedy was still only an able and ambitious Senator who yearned for the power and responsibility of the Presidency, Theodore H. White had already compiled masses of notes about the Presidential campaign of 1960.

The plan had bipartisan support in Washington, where the Republicans controlled Congress and the Democrats controlled the White House.

After the close 1844 contest, the Democratic advantage widened and the Whigs could win the White House only if the Democrats split.

When Harding joined the U. S. Congress, both houses were controlled by the Democrats, and Woodrow Wilson, a progressive Democrat, was in the White House ; therefore, the legislative agenda was dominated by the opposition.

The Democratic Party's repudiation of the Bourbon Democrats ( their pro-business wing, represented by incumbent President Grover Cleveland ), set the stage for 36 years of Republican control of the White House, interrupted only by the two terms of Democrat Woodrow Wilson.

Ari Fleischer, the White House Press Secretary at the time, later wrote in an autobiographical account of that address, " In a speech hailed by the press and by Democrats, President announced what became known as the ' Bush Doctrine '".

In the 1870s, chapters of the White League developed throughout Louisiana, paramilitary groups that intimidated Republicans, repressed voting by freedmen, and supported white Democrats returning to power in the state legislature.

Following the events of 1873, in 1874, Nash gathered many of the same men to establish the White League, a paramilitary organization that operated on behalf of Democrats and eventually had chapters in many areas of Louisisana.

" White voters without college education — economically anxious and culturally conservative — were called " Reagan Democrats " when they were considered only seasonal Republicans because of Ronald Reagan.

Buchanan coined the phrase " Silent Majority " and helped shape the strategy that drew millions of Democrats to Nixon ; in a 1972 memo he suggested the White House " should move to re-capture the anti-Establishment tradition or theme in American politics.

When many Democrats left the White House following Richard Nixon's replacement of Johnson, Dole did not.

The first violent clash between Red and White Guards occurred in July 1906 in Helsinki, but after the return of Finnish autonomy the moderate Social Democrats and the whole constitutional party withdrew from military activities.

With substantial majorities in both houses of Congress and control of the White House, O ' Neill hoped that Democrats would be able to implement Democratic-favored legislation, including universal health care and jobs programs.

The lame ducks depicted in this Clifford K. Berryman cartoon are defeated Democrats heading to the White House hoping to secure political appointments from then President Woodrow Wilson.

White Democrats regained political power in state legislatures across the South and worked to restore white supremacy.

:" White Republicans as well as Democrats solicited black votes but reluctantly rewarded blacks with nominations for office only when necessary, even then reserving the more choice positions for whites.

* The White House rebuts Democrats ' accusations that Bush shirked his military responsibilities, releasing pay records for the President's National Guard service between May 1972 and May 1973.

The CofCC was formed by various Republicans, Conservative Democrats, and some former members of the Citizens ' Councils of America, sometimes called the White Citizens Council, a segregationist organization formerly prominent in the 1960s and 1970s.

As things happen, Donald does not think about the Democrats ' promise to ensure defeat in Iraq prior to voting, so Ms White thus sees no reason to activate the device, and Donald votes Democratic of his own accord.

Daniels and other Democrats launched a " White Supremacy " campaign to appeal to racist sentiment.

Following the fiery remarks, some conservative media outlets chastised the Democrats and President Obama for not condemning Hoffa for using violent rhetoric of the kind they had cited as leading to the 2011 Tucson Shooting, while the White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said, “ Mr. Hoffa speaks for himself, he speaks for the labor movement ... The president speaks for himself.

The filibuster concerned documents that the White House refused to release, which Democrats suggested may contain proof of Bolton's abusive treatment and coercion of staff members or of his improper use of National Security Agency communications intercepts regarding U. S. citizens.

Trailing the early 1990s recession, the Democrats returned to the White House with the election of Bill Clinton in 1992.

In 1884, their support elected Democrat Grover Cleveland to the White House, and in doing so gave the Democrats their first national victory since 1856.

In 2010 the Ministry of Defence completed a thorough study of the defence policy and issued a White Book, or a White Paper on Defence, calling for a major overhaul of the structure of Defence Forces.

By the 1890s, the portion from 23rd Street to 34th Street was so brightly illuminated by electrical advertising signs, that people began calling it " The Great White Way.

Greenberg sometimes retaliated against the ethnic attacks, once going into the Chicago White Sox clubhouse to challenge manager Jimmy Dykes and at another time calling out the entire Yankee team.

Bogart loathed the trivial, effeminate parts he had to play early in his career, calling them " White Pants Willie " roles.

They are also known as " the White Elephants " or simply " the Elephants ", in reference to then New York Giants ' manager John McGraw's calling the team a " white elephant ".

In January 1963, the Shah announced the " White Revolution ", a six-point programme of reform calling for land reform, nationalization of the forests, the sale of state-owned enterprises to private interests, electoral changes to enfranchise women and allow non-Muslims to hold office, profit-sharing in industry, and a literacy campaign in the nation's schools.

The earliest evidence of the public calling it the " White House " was recorded in 1811.

Once there, however, he jumped in with both feet, calling each and every member of the committee for a one-on-one meeting at the White House.

* Marlin Fitzwater, former White House Press Secretary, who ended the interview after calling Ali G an idiot.

Reuben Hersh has also promoted the social view of mathematics, calling it a " humanistic " approach, similar to but not quite the same as that associated with Alvin White ; one of Hersh's co-authors, Philip J. Davis, has expressed sympathy for the social view as well.

Automobile executive Henry Ford spent an evening at the White House trying to convince Hoover to veto the bill, calling it " an economic stupidity.

" The New York Times reviewed both cocktails unfavorably, calling the Belmont Breeze " a significant improvement over the nigh undrinkable White Carnation " despite the fact that it " tastes like a refined trashcan punch.

" The White House partly clarified Bush's position in a February 24, 2004 press conference with White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan, who stated that by calling on the FMA to permit states the possibility of creating other " legal arrangements ," Bush specifically meant to permit states the possibility of enacting civil unions.

" Edmund White considers Querelle the only film based on Genet's book that works, calling it " visually as artificial and menacing as Genet's prose.

Huber wrote the White Rose's sixth and final leaflet calling for an end to National Socialism.

Reviews or critiques of artistic or journalistic works have also used the word in this manner, usually to imply a shallow repetitiveness in the work of the reviewed, such as New York Magazine calling the White Stripes ' 2007 Canadian tour a " one-note shtick ".

He covered four Major League Baseball teams, beginning with a long tenure calling the games of the St. Louis Cardinals, then the Oakland Athletics ( for one year ) and the Chicago White Sox ( for eleven years ), before ending his career as the announcer for the Chicago Cubs.

The first years of Burmese independence were marked by successive insurgencies by the Red Flag Communists led by Thakin Soe, the White Flag Communists led by Thakin Than Tun, the Yèbaw Hpyu ( White-band PVO ) led by Bo La Yaung, a member of the Thirty Comrades, army rebels calling themselves the Revolutionary Burma Army ( RBA ) led by Communist officers Bo Zeya, Bo Yan Aung and Bo Yè Htut — all three of them members of the Thirty Comrades, Arakanese Muslims or the Mujahid, and the Karen National Union ( KNU ).

One of Snow's neighboring Jamaican families, the Browns, first introduced the teenager to reggae and began calling him " Snow " and " Snow White.

On October 2,, calling the American League East championship playoff game on WPIX, White authored one of baseball's most famous calls — that of Yankee shortstop Bucky Dent's home run in the seventh inning against the host Boston Red Sox:

The White Stripes named The Sonics as one of the bands that influenced them the most, calling them " the epitome of ' 60s punk " and claiming they were " harder than the Kinks, and punk long before punk ".

The act of calling upon someone to remember his personal moral obligations in this way is expressed in Rudyard Kipling's poem The White Man's Burden.