Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think that Lew Crampton is a nice guy. "An unusually attractive candidate," Frank says. "Unquestionably qualified for the job, personally and professionally," Crampton supporter and State Rep. Mel King says. Yet on the eve of the election, Crampton is fighting to be seen, saying, "Sure, visibility has been a big problem." He just came off a weekend "big blitz" of the state--on the road with three Winnebagos--to talk and press flesh and distribute some 50,000 pieces of campaign literature...
...well, none of this would be happening now. Remember, Ed King and his gang weren't quite sure they would be able to "Dump the Duke" or the "Dukakis Jewdiciary"--not quite sure because when it finally happened Ed himself looked pretty surprised. But they did it in a big way, leaving Frank Hatch to face a Democrat who drove people like his running mate, Tommy O'Neill, into complete silence. Frank Hatch was not prepared for the block of Democrats who were crossing over to endorse him. Quickly, a Democrats for Hatch Committee was formed by people like Barbara...
...took him a while to figure it out. But just a couple of weeks ago Tom and his Dad (who happens to be Speaker of the U.S. House) got their acts together and went for King, in as big a way as they could. They got Jimmy Carter up there on the platform in Lynn, and if that wasn't a show for Democratic unity...Well, there were a few embarrassing moments when Kennedy refused to shake hands with the gubernatorial candidate, and when King got booed and hissed after he was introduced, but the President managed to patch things...
...missile and designed an energy policy to encourage new oil exploration and alternate sources without taxing them. All he needed was four more years. It seems that the poor little country boy from Plains, Ga., has managed to get some things accomplished without previous training in Washington's "big leagues...
...followed by Stage II. Announcing it, Carter conceded that the tom-toms reverberating from the Oval Office in the past had signaled anything but a determined anti-inflationary policy. The regulators who he now suggests are out of control are Carter appointees. The budget that he says is too big is a Carter budget. But the good news is that the President pro fesses at last to recognize the problems and to have learned from past misjudgments...