Word: bunkerism
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...refused to say how he would vote in November. Yet last week's jaunt seemed to confirm that even in the South, Ferraro is likely to be a strong asset. Said Lloyd Doggett, who is the Democratic Senate candidate in Texas: "If she can win in Archie Bunker's district, she can win in Willie Nelson's." -By Janes Kelly. Reported by David Beckwith with Ferraro and John E. Yang with Mondale
...Mondale played it safe). But there is a risk: the slightest hesitancy or overaggressiveness in manner, any fumbled response to a question or verbal gaffe will be enormously magnified. Ferraro is a streetwise campaigner who has won three elections to Congress as a liberal Democrat from Archie Bunker's district in Queens. (She likes to say, "Archie didn't elect me. Edith did.") But she is untested in a national campaign...
...options, including recommendation of a motion of censure, a heavy fine or even expulsion from the House. Hansen had failed to report several large-scale financial transactions totaling some $334,000 over four years, including a concealed loan of $61,000 to his wife Connie from Texas Billionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt in 1978. Hansen, who voluntarily refrained from voting in the House after his conviction, was the first convicted felon permitted to continue serving in that chamber since Michigan Democrat Charles Diggs was convicted in 1978 for diverting employees' salaries...
SENTENCED. George Hansen, 53, colorful, right-wing Republican Congressman from Idaho; to five to 15 months in prison and a $40,000 fine, for filing false financial-disclosure statements to Congress that, among other things, omitted his monetary ties to Texas Billionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt; in Washington...
After the speech, the President and his wife gamely descended into a German bunker, then flew to the American cemetery above Omaha Beach. Walking alone arm in arm among the geometrically perfect rows of graves, they paid silent homage to the American dead. At the grave of an unknown soldier, the First Lady placed some flowers; later she laid a spray of carnations and blue irises at the tombstone of Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr., the son of his presidential namesake, who landed on Utah Beach with the 4th Infantry Division and died of a heart attack one month later...