Jack Paar 7th March, 1960: After a monthâs absence, Jack Paar had re-appeared as the host on The Tonight Show. He had walked off in protest against censorship before returning to his position as host of this production.ack Paar 7th March, 1960: After a monthâs absence, Jack Paar had re-appeared as the host on The Tonight Show. He had walked off in protest against censorship before returning to his position as host of this production.
Today, Priebus will be the featured speaker at a Washington, D.C., luncheon with The Ripon Society, a group whose website says it takes âits name from Ripon, Wisconsin, the birthplace of the Republican Party.â.
Although he was widely associated with the Progressive Movement, by no means were all of Wisconsin's progressive achievements the work of La Follette himself. Wisconsin's Progressive movement began as a small faction within the Republican Party that grew in strength by drawing support from a variety of constituencies.There were even factions within factions, each with leaders who were influential in enlisting different groups of citizens to Progressive causes.he Republicans were the party of Lincoln and the Union Army, and in the decades following the Civil War, they held a virtual monopoly on state government by organizing and satisfying the needs of Civil War veterans. Until the 1890s, a few party leaders tightly controlled Wisconsin's legislative agenda.