Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first Panama Canal treaty turned on a handful of votes, and so it seemed would the second as the critical vote loomed last week. South Dakota Democrat James Abourezk, for example, was miffed at being cut out of White House-Congress meetings trying to resolve the question of deregulating natural gas prices. California Republican Sam Hayakawa had fired off a letter to Carter complaining about a wide variety of Administration foreign policy moves. Nevada Democrat Howard Cannon wanted to tack onto the Panama treaty a relatively minor reservation. Massachusetts Republican Edward Brooke was pushing some technical changes. All were threatening...
Christian Democrat Helmut Kohl, leader of the opposition, scowled that Schmidt's gesture was "too late." The Chancellor, he said, should have had the "courage" to back the bomb when Carter needed such support. "Your silence was irresponsible. You are responsible for the strains in West German-U.S. relations." A top official of Schmidt's government privately agreed, in part, admitting: "We could have done more to help Carter on the bomb issue. But for purely domestic [political] reasons we were afraid...
There was similar consternation in Washington, from the Pentagon and State Department to Capitol Hill. "Another in a long line of Carter mistakes," declared Senate Republican Leader Howard Baker Jr. of Tennessee. Said Georgia Democrat Sam Nunn, a friend of Carter's and a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee: "I'm dismayed and puzzled. I don't understand. They're not on a very clear course...
...grew up on the city's ethnic, working-class West Side (his father is Croatian, his mother Irish). At 23, he won a seat on the city council and six years later was elected clerk of courts, the city's second highest elective office. A maverick Democrat with a strong anti-Establishment bias, he has built his power base among poor and working-class voters. Says he: "They need someone to stand up and fight for them." Once he even invited Cleveland's civic leaders to breakfast with him at Tony's Diner, where...
...billion, and the planned deficit will run an inflationary $60 billion-plus for the second straight year. With the economy rising and unemployment falling, even Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal and the rest of Carter's closest economic advisers believe that the deficit should be contained. Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire, one of the Senate's best economic thinkers, argues that the budget should be shrunk to $465 billion. At the very least, it could be reduced to $480 billion by selective paring. If spending is brought down, the Government will be able to further cut personal and corporate...