Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the President-elect is in debt to blacks is to put it mildly. During the campaign he promised to appoint more blacks to high Government posts than any previous President. The congressional Black Caucus gathered and submitted names; so did other black organizations such as the National Bar Association and the National Medical Association. Said Jeffalyn Johnson, a senior professor at the Federal Executive Development Institute who spent several months working up potential appointee lists: "There is no shortage of black talent in this country...
...SUMMER OF 1973, for most Americans, will be remembered as the first of the "Watergate Summers." Under television lights in the venerable Caucus Room, the Senate Watergate Committee became an afternoon fixture almost as important as the soap operas it replaced on home television screens. Phrases like "At this point in time," and "What did he know and when did he know it?" as well as appointment logs and White House organization charts became the lifeblood of political conversations. The really knowledgeable viewers knew not only the names of the senators and their peculiar questioning habits, but the names...
Adopting a "run everywhere" strategy for the nomination, Carter entered every state caucus and all but one of the 31 primaries (West Virginia was the exception-and that only because his slate of delegates failed to qualify). In the early days, he recalled later, "I doubt if one out of a thousand of you had ever heard my name. We went into factory shift lines, shopping centers, country courthouses and city halls, livestock sale barns and farmers' markets-to talk a little and listen...
...strip, which appears in today's Crimson, shows the characters Joanie Caucus and Rick Redfern in bed, as one episode in the story of Joanie's growing interest in the star investigative reporter...
...papers plan to cut all of next week's cartoons. These episodes delve deeper into the relationship between Caucus and Redfern, although none are as visually explicit as today's strip...