Word: bradleys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what new positions can the Democrats develop for themselves? The convention gave no answer. There was constant, worried talk that the Democrats were "a party in transition" (New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley), "a party in an identity crisis" (Connecticut Representative Toby Moffett), "a party that is struggling to find its soul" (Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Thomas P. O'Neill III). Says Eric Goldman, a former adviser to Lyndon Johnson: "The Democratic Party may have outlived its usefulness." Says Ramsey Clark, L.B.J.'s Attorney General: "The Democratic Party is a party in name only, not in shared belief...
...Bradley of CBS was also canvassing delegations, but there was nothing unobtrusive about it. More famous than all but a handful of the Democrats on the floor, Bradley was slowed by autograph seekers and fans asking him to pose for photographs. Like Wilkie, he had to develop solid sources to stay on top of convention developments. He also needed interview subjects who would go on camera with timely information. It was new-style political reporting at its most trying...
Reporters like Wilkie and Bradley are part of an elite corps of journalists, drawn mostly from large newspapers, newsmagazines and the networks, who dominate coverage of such major national events as the conventions. The clout of their employers gives them access unheard of among most regional newspapers and television stations-and hence an influence that far transcends their numbers...
...successor, tainted as he is by his vigorous pimping for the president and his bitter attack on Kennedy in recent months. But there are other, new leaders that may be emerging Dellums turned on a lukewarm crowd with his mix of preaching and urban populism. Senator Bill Bradley (D-N.J.), Senator Paul Tsongas (D-Mass), State Sen. Julian bond of Georgia and Gov. Jerry Brown of California are all young, all liberals within the party mainstream, and all rising stars...
...city that endured the Watts riots of 1965, in which 28 blacks and six others were killed, only an uneasy truce prevails between nearly a million blacks and two traditional sources of racial friction: the police force and the school board. The fact that Mayor Thomas Bradley is black has helped to moderate the clashes, but the City of Angels is no heavenly haven for its blacks...