Word: chairmen
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Williams argues that the Bill of Rights is most endangered today not by the attacks of overzealous district attorneys and congressional committee chairmen but by public apathy. In a showdown, Williams fears that the majority of the American people would gladly trade the Bill of Rights for "a guarantee of total economic security until death." Noting that Chief Justice Earl Warren once said he doubted that the Bill of Rights would now be passed by Congress, Williams goes him one better: "I am doubtful that it would ever get out of committee...
...committee chairmen were dead set against the Administration's determination to bypass the finance committee-on the theory that the same thing might later happen to them. More significantly, the Senators resented being used in a hopeless cause to give the President a political issue. The Senators also recognized something else that Kennedy did not: medicare is not so overwhelmingly popular an issue as the President seems to believe. Letters ran heavily against medicare after Kennedy's appearance in Madison Square Garden, and a Gallup poll showed that its popular support had dropped from 55% last March...
There have been admirals in the Kentucky navy with more power and prestige than many Republican state chairmen in the South since the Civil War. As leaders of a small and suspect minority, many G.O.P. chairmen shrugged off any chance of winning state elections, dozed on dusty courthouse steps, and dreamed of the election of the next Republican President and the patronage that would flow down from Washington...
...attracting a new breed of politician- furrow-browed, button-down, college-trained young amateurs who, one by one, took over control of the state parties from apathetic and aging professionals. The new wave is now in command of Alabama, Mississippi, and South and North Carolina. The four rebel state chairmen...
...beleaguered Dean, departments and their Chairmen seem perpetually greedy. So McGeorge Bundy found, when chairmen repeatedly expressed their astonishment at seeing Program for Harvard College funds pouring into fields other than their own. The unrestricted funds of the Faculty, over which the Dean has control, are claimed every year by hundreds of departments and committees--by Chemistry, by the scholarships office, by General Education. They can go anywhere, and everybody wants them...