Word: cratic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mitchell was not universally popular in the Nixon entourage. He signed on later than some of the charter mem bers, and a few of the campaign aides found his no-nonsense attitude auto cratic. He stayed high in Nixon's esteem, however, and soon after the election the boss pegged him for Attorney General, refusing to take no for an answer. It will be Mitchell's task to make good on one of Nixon's most specific campaign pledges: to check the rising crime rate by improving law enforcement and related services. Mitchell's personal views...
...might, quipped Minnesota's Republican Congressman Albert Quie, become an assistant secretary under Gardner. "Shriver and OEO," said Quie, "have failed." Unless the program is overhauled, echoed New York Republican Charles Goodell, who joined Quie in offering the Republicans' "Opportunity Crusade" as an alternative to the Demo cratic program, "Congress may well kill off the whole thing...
...wound up retaining every statewide office and all but one congressional seat. New Hampshire's King, who in 1962 became the state's first Democratic Governor in 39 years, won an unprecedented third two-year term - thanks in part to a continuing squabble within the G.O.P. Demo cratic Senator Thomas Mclntyre easily trounced his super-hawkish opponent, retired Brigadier General Harrison Thyng, a World War II and Korean flying ace who had financial backing from such outstate hyperconservatives as Texas Millionaire H. L. Hunt...
...declared that "in principle" he saw no objection to a coalition with the Socialists. There was also talk of a "grand coalition" between the Socialists and the Christian Democrats, with Interior Minister Paul Lücke as Chancellor. It was a course especially attractive to both the Christian Demo cratic left wing and Erhard's enemies, since the alliance would exclude him from such a government...
That figure now stands at $4.5 billion, and a few cost-conscious Congressmen insist that the U.S., rather than pay that price, ought to withdraw entirely from the SST race. Asks Wisconsin's Demo cratic Senator William Proxmire: "Is this the time to spend federal money on this jet-set frill...