Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gaffe. Udall accused Carter of practicing "the politics of racial division." Jackson called Carter's language "amazing" and said that the Georgian "will be explaining that for the rest of the campaign." Protests poured in from black groups, including the Urban League and the congressional Black Caucus...
Carter also suffered setbacks in caucus states. In Virginia, where Democrats were in the early stages of delegate selection, they gave him 30% of their votes, and 60% for uncommitted delegate slates. In Oklahoma, where the selection process was completed, he wound up with twelve delegates, but 18 delegates went uncommitted and seven went to Native Son Fred Harris, who dropped out last week as a candidate in the primaries...
That afternoon Carter wooed the congressional Black Caucus, which was turned off by Jackson's tough "I am against busing" stand and has doubts about Udall's staying power. The black Congressmen pointed out that they strongly favor the Humphrey-Hawkins full-employment bill, which Carter opposes. He told them that he still has trouble with the idea that Government should guarantee a job to every willing American, but he promised to reconsider the recently modified version of the bill and report soon...
...finding jobs is only part of a much larger national problem: 7.6% of the U.S. workforce is unemployed-down from the recession peak of 8.9% but still worrisome. Is it possible to guarantee a job to everyone who wants one? For two full days last week, the cavernous Caucus Room of the Old Senate Office Building resounded with testimony from experts summoned by the Joint Economic Committee to answer that poser. TIME Economic Correspondent John Berry reports...
Though it is not my purpose here to dwell upon them, there were, of course, mistakes. I personally had a hand in two of the finest. One, which turned into a minor scandal last October, involved the printing of membership applications for an organization whose caucus we planned to pack. Not precisely illegal, but not the ethical pinnacle of my career either. We got caught...