Roger Kent Quotes
He would double-cross and destroy the reputation of anybody.
Roger Kent, *, Chairman, California Democratic Party, Warning about his fellow Californian
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The event that triggered the call was President Lyndon Johnson introducing the Voting Right Act. Russell had been a mentor to the young Johnson, a fellow Southerner who had voted against and blocked all civil rights legislation when he was in the House and Senate. However when he became President, his representation changed and he reverted to his pre-political views. {637651}
The Slavery issue was so contentious that many Northern Congressmen had just given up on the abolitionist cause or never agreed with it even though in many areas of the country the majority of their constituents supported abolition.
Hillary Rodham (not yet married to Bill Clinton, at the time a student at Yale Law School) shouted this at Joe Califano as he walked down the aisle of the Senate Caucus Room, representing Paul Austin, chairman and CEO of Coca-Cola in a hearing on migrant labor problems on July 24, 1970. Coca-Cola had acquired Minute Maid in 1960, and as a result became involved in the issue because of their exploitation of migrant workers in Florida. Mondale, chairman of the Subcommittee on Migratory Labor of the Senate Subcommittee on Labor and Public Welfare, was conducting the hearing. He ended up praising Austin in the hearing as Austin agreed to support amending the National Labor Relations act to cover migrant workers and permit them to organize.
In 1904 President Theodore Roosevelt instructed his Attorney General to file one of America’s first and the largest anti-trust case against Northern Securities Company. The President was a Republican and a patrician. Most of his social acquaintances and a few friends were totally surprised that the President could turn against his own class in what they saw as an act of class warfare. They sought explanations for the unthinkable.
Referring to political columnist Drew Pearson:
Roger Kent was an American politician and member of the Democratic Party. He served alternately as chairman and vice-chairman of the California Democratic Party between 1954 and 1965.
