Word: abm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Nixon tosses, turns. The pantheon of the past retreats. Now it is 1971. From his Oval Office, Nixon sends to the Senate the nomination of a Mississippi judge for the Supreme Court. Zap! Confirmed. He asks $10 billion for an expanded ABM system. Pow! Appropriated. He proposes cuts in school funds. Chop! Done. In one corner of his dream stands a forlorn J. William Fulbright, talking while no one listens. With other prickly Democratic Sena'e oligarchs, Fulbright has been toppled by a Republican capture of the Senate. In a far recess of the Senate chamber, a vestigial cluster...
...Show Me State," has changed in six years. In the 1964 campaign he was a leading advocate of a strong military and a vigorous effort to win in Vietnam. Since then, however, he has become a leading critic of the war and of big defense budgets (opposing the ABM, for example...
NEVADA: Democratic Senator Howard W. Cannon is a chief target of the Nixon-Agnew guns. Cannon has opened himself to the radicalliberal charge by voting against Haynsworth, Carswell, and the ABM as well as for the Cooper-Church Amendment. These votes took courage, for Nevada is a conservative state, and Cannon's opponent, Republican Rep. William Raggio, has made the most of them. Raggio is a strong law-and-order, victory-in-Vietnam man, and his election to the Senate would be a big boost to the Administration. Agnew has made several trips to the state to aid Raggio...
Goodell authored the first bill inCongress that would have legislated an end to the Vietnam war. He has also opposed the Nixon Administration on the ABM and the Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell nominations to the Supreme Court...
INDIANA: Vance Hartke, the Democratic incumbent from Indiana, may not be the ideal liberal Senator, but on most of the basic issues he votes with the good guys and in Indiana that takes guts. He opposed both Haynsworth and Carswell, as well as the ABM. He has opposed the war since the early days of the Johnson Administration. Predictably he is in trouble. His opponent, right-wing Republican Rep. Richard Roudebush, is a former national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and supports Nixon and Agnew about as much as anyone...