Word: chairman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
That process of judgment has already begun, and among the things it will strip away are uncertainties about exactly what Kennedy's policies are. In this area, his opponents see great opportunities. Says Democratic National Chairman John...
...billion more than Carter's original proposal. Said conservative Democrat Ernest Rollings of South Carolina to Kennedy as they left the Senate floor: "I saw you vote for that, Ted. You ain't so bad. There's hope for you yet." Other Democrats thought otherwise. Complained Budget Committee Chairman Edmund Muskie of Maine: "Like a good New England sailor, Kennedy has learned to tack with the wind." Kennedy did so, moreover, without explaining whether he wants to get the extra money for the Pentagon by cutting domestic programs or by increasing the budget deficit...
Since Kennedy became chairman of the Judiciary Committee last January, he has impressed other Democrats by his ability to get along with the committee's ranking Republican, former Segregationist Strom Thurmond of South Carolina. They were able to compromise, for example, on the testy question of whether nominees for federal judgeships should be required to resign from private clubs that discriminate against blacks. The problem arose over Carter's nomination of a Tennessee jurist, Bailey Brown, to the U.S. Court of Appeals. Brown had a strong pro-civil rights record as a district court judge, but he stubbornly refused...
...President was shocked and set back when an earlier supporter, Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne, moved over to Kennedy's camp after a private Democratic poll showed him easily beating Carter in Illinois. George Dunne, the Cook County party chairman, also had talks with Byrne and said that Carter would get little help from local leaders. Byrne's switch will make it much tougher for Carter in the crucial Illinois primary March 18. Said Kennedy, who had phoned Byrne several times last week: ''I'm delighted...
Under normal circumstances, Exxon's report would have been cause for corporate chest puffing. But Chairman Clifford C. Garvin Jr. tried unpersuasively to accentuate the negative, arguing that earnings in the U.S. from refining and marketing ''continued to be depressed...