Word: backslide
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Republicans may also cast an eye toward Texas, where former Governor John Connally, 59, the backslid Democrat, has his eyes on 1980. A spellbinding speaker who looks as well as talks like a President (at least a Texas-style President), he stumped the Lone-Star State with Ford and traveled nationwide on behalf of his new party's congressional candidates. Big John has many assets, including an idea (usually conservative) to match almost every problem and plenty of free time and money. But Ford's loss of Texas, on top of Connally's old wheeler-dealer reputation...
Nixon Link. At home, many Republicans cannot accept Connally because he is a backslid Democrat, a Lyndon Johnson confidant who switched parties in 1973, opportunistically figuring that Nixon would help him win the 1976 presidential nomination. Indeed, he was Nixon's first choice to succeed Spiro Agnew in 1973, until it became clear that Congress would not confirm...
...year when politicians are deeply suspect, what better way to woo voters than by pronouncing a plague on both our major parties? Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa, 69, famed semanticist and ex-president of San Francisco State College, did precisely that in his campaign for the U.S. Senate from California. A backslid Democrat who now calls him self a "Republican unpredictable," Hayakawa explained the difference between the two this way: "Republicans are people who, if you were drowning 50 ft. from shore, would throw you a 25 ft. rope and tell you to swim the other 25 ft. because it would...
Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills, a backslid free trader, shrewdly senses the rise of protectionist sentiment among politically potent forces. The bill, which Mills expects to report out by month's end, would impose mandatory quotas on imports of foreign shoes and synthetic and wool textiles. Furthermore, it would force President Nixon to continue curbing oil imports by a quota system, rather than replace the quotas with a less restrictive tariff. The oil deal was wrapped up in eight minutes. Even that might be only the beginning. An omnibus provision authorizes the President to put quotas...