Word: beholdenness
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...Gary Hart who, at a debate among the eight Democratic candidates sponsored by the Des Moines Register, so pointedly raised the question of how beholden Mondale is to organized labor, whose support could be worth as much as $20 million. At a press conference in Atlanta last week, John Glenn followed with a harsh rhetorical question for AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland. Asked Glenn: "What does Kirkland think he's buying with his $20 million? A President who will never disagree with the AFL-CIO? If the Democratic nomination can be bought for $20 million in the spring...
Mondale has a problem but so has the press. In the past year, Mondale did an impressive job of putting together the old Democratic coalition of interests; the press echoed his opponents' cry that he is therefore beholden to the interests. Mondale is still out front, having got through the year without making any major gaffes. But this careful positioning of his came under press attack too. Mondale's media director ineptly countered that Mondale "dares to be cautious...
...Glenn as a young man, his aides are trying to give him a heroic political cast, portraying him as a natural leader, a committed Democrat and a candidate with vision. In the process, the Glenn camp has drawn sharp contrasts with what it views as Mondale's beholden and outdated liberalism. Says Glenn pointedly: "To govern is to choose, and to choose is to occasionally say no." Mondale's counteroffensive has been to portray himself as "the real Democrat," contrasting his own mainline party positions with Glenn's more conservative voting record and political innocence...
Long range, some Democrats fear that Mondale would be too beholden to interest groups to govern effectively as President. More immediately, they fear that he is setting himself up as the oldfashioned, free-spending, solve-every-problem-with-a-new-Government-program liberal that Ronald Reagan eats for breakfast. Talking to the party faithful in Maine, Mondale was asked at almost every stop if he could win. Clearly nettled, he ended one talk with this line: "And if nominated, I can be elected...
Medvedev argues that Andropov, for all his shrewdness, remains beholden to the old, entrenched bureaucracy. Now 69, he has "waited for supreme power for too long," says Medvedev. "If he wants to make his mark on history, he must move faster than his predecessors." Andropov's recent track record, Medvedev observes, indicates that he is capable of quick action in foreign policy but has repeatedly gone into reverse when it comes to meeting his people's main desire for "at least a moderate level of political democracy...