Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...entirely different from the case of Connecticut Democrat Thomas Dodd, who was censured by the Senate in June for using $116,083 accumulated at testimonial dinners for paying liquor bills, home improvements and other personal expenses. That did not prevent Tom Dodd from sniping last week: "It seems strange to me that Percy was so critical of my friends' raising money...
Wallace aspires to beat the Republican presidential candidate and the Democrat as well, thinking that a three-way stand-off in the Electoral College, with no candidate managing to win the required 270 votes, might throw the decision to the House of Representatives. After almost seven weeks of baby kissing and arm wringing in 14 states, however, Lonesome George has little cause for serious hope. Of the 66,059 signatures he must gather in California, for example, he has rounded up 25,000 at most, and he must file his petition...
...guaranteed annual income. In fact, what ideological difference there is on the guaranteed-income issue is largely a matter of emphasis, with conservative supporters apt to put more accent on incentives-and to link their proposals to reductions in what Economist Friedman decries as a "rag bag" of Democrat-administered welfare programs...
...next year. "I could win hands down," Yarborough said last week in Washington. "But that doesn't mean I'm necessarily going to run." At least 18 other Texans are also being discussed as candidates, although only Lieutenant Governor Preston Smith, a colorless, ultra-conservative Democrat, has yet announced. "Everyone's coming out of the woodwork for this one," said a Republican leader...
...state's open primary, many Republicans might cagily cross party lines to vote for Yarborough. Their purpose would be to set up the liberal Democrat for November against a conservative Republican. In that situation, tens of thousands of conservative Democrats, unable to stomach their own party's liberal candidate, would probably vote Republican...