Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Young's impeachment. Said Idaho Republican Steve Symms: "His ambassadorship seems more favorable to the Soviet Union than to the United States." In Chicago, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said that Young "should learn discipline or should not continue in his post." Lawrence P. McDonald, a Georgia Democrat (and member of the John Birch Society) introduced a motion in the House of Representatives to impeach Young; it failed...
...Democrat now sitting in the White House and suffering his own troubles in the polls is also altering the perspective with which Americans view Watergate. Nixon's foreign policy accomplishments - China, SALT, the Middle East and the rest - look pretty good against the developing Democratic record...
...also plunged into public service and ran national programs to hire Viet Nam veterans and train unemployed blacks. That won him a justified reputation for social concern. Though his dedicated inflation fighting satisfies the most conservative Republicans, Miller is a registered Democrat who worries greatly about unemployment; in the past he supported the abortive presidential bid of Liberal Hubert Humphrey. So it was not surprising that when Carter had had enough of Arthur Burns' professorial nagging, a search team headed by Vice President Walter Mondale put Miller on a short list of potential successors at the Fed. Carter, aware that...
...They are: Texas Democrat Lloyd Bentsen, Virginia Democrat Harry F. Byrd Jr. and Missouri Republican John C. Danforth...
With law degrees from both Washington and Lee (LL.B. '31) and Harvard (LL.M. '32), Powell practiced law for 35 years with one of Richmond's oldest firms. His politics were those of a patrician Virginia Democrat, though he often supported Republicans in national elections. As chairman of the Richmond school board in 1959, he won a hard-fought battle against the state's segregationists, who were urging massive resistance to the Supreme Court's ruling on school desegregation. As president of the American Bar Association in 1964-65. he persuaded colleagues to support legal...