Word: assemblyman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Houston I. Flournoy, 44, a Princeton-educated Ph.D. (political science), won by more votes in his 1970 race for California controller than the margins of the three other major Republican candidates combined. A three-term California assemblyman, Flournoy is a boyish-looking, easygoing politician who outpolled three opponents by almost 2 to 1 in June's primary for the G.O.P. nomination to succeed Governor Ronald Reagan when he steps down at the end of this year. Known as the ranking "liberal" in the Reagan administration ("moderate" would be more accurate), Flournoy was untainted by the Watergate-related scandals that...
...Flournoy in the water." Flournoy was actually born in New York City and educated at Cornell and Princeton, where he earned a doctorate in political science. He came to California in 1957 to join the political-science faculty at Pomona College and entered politics as a state assemblyman in 1960. In three two-year terms Flournoy allied himself with the liberal Republican minority. He never became part of the dominant Reagan faction, even after winning the controller's post in 1966. Flournoy's amiable grin and easy manner are assets, but even well-wishers acknowledge that his performance...
Outside the South, many Republicans agree that the best thing that could happen to them is for Nixon to leave of fice. After a special election for California's state senate last month, in which Assemblyman Jerry Lewis was upset by a Democrat in a normally conservative district, the loser's stunned campaign aide said bitterly: "We can't stand this any longer. Nixon has got to step down." The President's removal from the scene, says a G.O.P. campaign official, would "give the voters what they want even more than gas and oil, and that...
...couple of days later, it turned out that David Dinkins, a one-time assemblyman Beame had picked to be New York's first black deputy mayor, had paid no personal income tax for four years. "I haven't committed a crime," Dinkins explained. "What I did was fail to comply with the law." "I did not seek to evade payment of taxes," he continued, "but I neglected, I failed to file." "I see no comparison with Mr. Terry," he added, sharply...
...week after 15 years as the generally exciting, expansive and expensive Governor of New York. The job passed automatically to Rocky's loyal if colorless Lieutenant Governor Malcolm Wilson, 59. It was Wilson who initially pushed Rockefeller toward the executive mansion in 1958 when, as an influential state assemblyman, he took Rocky around to various Republican leaders and trumpeted him as the man who could unseat Democrat Averell Harriman. Now it was finally Wilson's turn to step into the limelight...