Word: coopered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Massachusetts is so liberal, Cooper notes, that the most important elections are often the Democratic primaries. In order to have political voices in the state, many professors choose, logically, to register as Democrats...
...addition, Cooper says, party affiliation can have little to do with political ideas or voting decisions. During the Nixon administration, Cooper says, Federal Reserve Chair Arthur Burns asked him to serve on the Federal Reserve Board. Burns told Cooper that he was embarrassed to ask him his party affiliation...
...Cooper replied that he was a registered Democrat in Connecticut. And Burns--who had served as a counselor to Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard M. Nixon--confessed that he, too, was a Democrat...
...while his minority status makes Mansfield more outspoken, it could stifle the voices of other conservative faculty members. Cooper says that in a conversation with a government professor, he lamented that the U.S. had missed an opportunity by failing to take military action against Yugoslavia...
...government professor, Cooper recalls, agreed--but admitted to being embarrassed to say so because the view was considered too "hawkish...