Word: arizona
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Doughnuts. In contrast, Arizona's Congressman Morris ("Mo") Udall, the only declared candidate in the herd, served coffee and doughnuts while they lasted but had 85 volunteers-the largest contingent at the convention-hand ing out his low-budget literature. Senator Henry Jackson, the present front runner by the measure of zeal if not appeal, mounted the best-organized campaign. Sitting in a trailer on the floor beneath the auditorium, Jackson played host to a stream of delegates selected by his 35 coordinators. Jackson, who already has $500,000 in his war chest, was the guest of honor...
Guerin thumbs a tattered copy of Arizona Highways. They are going to a little town to buy turquoise next week, he explains, but only from a certain Indian craftsman. "We should probably call to see if he'll be there...
...announced in was Congressman Morris K. Udall of Arizona, 52, the brother of the former Secretary of the Interior and a tall, effective politician who appeals to the likes of George McGovern's 1972 constituency. The man who dropped out was Minnesota Senator Walter Mondale, 46, a Kennedyesque liberal who has spent a year in "exploratory" campaigning toward '76, traveling and speaking in 30 states. That experience, he said, had taught him that "I do not have the overwhelming desire to be President which is essential for the kind of campaign that is required." He had also discovered...
Factional Friction. The Republican leadership, too, will experience new strains. Now thoroughly outgunned, it faces some factional friction within its own ranks. Arizona's John Rhodes, the minority leader, won comfortably but has been too often absent from his floor duties to suit some colleagues. The third-ranking House leader, John Anderson of Illinois, probably will be challenged by conservatives who resent his sharp attacks on Nixon...
Morgan, 36, thus became the fourth law-enforcement official in the Nixon Administration to be charged with a crime. As an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, he had supervised the policing of counterfeit, customs, firearms and alcohol laws. The former Arizona lawyer faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine...