Word: caucuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Caught by the piercing television cameras in the Senate Caucus Room, the two John Mitchells seemed too much of a contrast to be reconcilable...
Backstage for the Ervin committee means the other side of the street. While the hearings take place in the Senate's colonnaded Caucus Room, across First Street the staff labors in quarters that resemble a hastily established World War II recruiting office. A huge workroom has been thrown together in the ground-floor auditorium of the Dirksen Office Building, with makeshift cubicles, stenographers' desks and photocopying machines scattered about. Newsmen and everyone else unconnected with the committee are barred from the room except for specific purposes...
Making "revolutionaries" members of the Democratic Party merely creates a more radical version of New York's New Democratic Coalition, a disorganized and slightly comical caucus of liberal Democrats. As another loyal faction in the Democratic organization, Domhoff's radicals are only another interest group calling for concessions. They bear partial responsibility for party decisions, and are open to co-optation by party liberals. It was a variation on Domhoff's brand of party loyalty that made possible the Watergate break-in and coverup. Dedication to any organization whose basic aim is the expansion of its own power can only...
Margaret was less positive about other subjects, especially politicians. After Trudeau's liberal caucus canceled plans for group yoga because of fears of adverse publicity, Margaret commented, "It would probably have cleared some dust out of their heads...
...South Carolina," the Senator answered. In her first dispatch, the Parisian expatriate, who once did a stint as theater critic for the Partisan Review, found some highly theatrical touches in "the rather shabby" marble-pillared Senate Caucus Room. She might even do a book on Watergate...