Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Werner) Michael Blumenthal, 50, fits the Carter specifications for Cabinet officers with almost ball-bearing precision. He is a topnotch businessman with a concern for social causes. He is a Democrat but not a big spender. He favors some national economic planning but not the amount called for by the Humphrey-Hawkins full-employment bill. He is praised by labor leaders and businessmen alike. Says Douglas Fraser, a vice president of the United Auto Workers: "He is a very enlightened industrialist. His social values are solid, and he practices them...
Poised and principled member of myriad commissions and civic groups . . . Chosen by President Lyndon Johnson as Ambassador to Luxembourg, 1965-67, served as an alternate delegate to the United Nations General Assembly . . . Chairman of Credentials Committee for 1972 Democratic National Convention; criticized by some at the time as being too much of an "Old Guard" Democrat . . . Civil rights champion since student days . . . Speaks up for blacks, women and other minority groups as director of IBM, Scott Paper, Chase Manhattan Bank . . . Member of prestigious Washington law firm with strong middle-of-the-road Democratic ties . . . Protestant . .. Married to William Beasley Harris...
...little hell." At a farewell party at Ford's Theater, Old Friends Pearl Bailey and Carol Charming sang a duet, and Nancy Dickerson and Gloria Steinem helped narrate Carpenter's life story. But stealing the show, as usual, was Liz herself. "I stand here as the only Democrat leaving town," she told the 650 guests. Reminiscing a bit, Carpenter, 56, cracked: "I can remember most of the men's first wives and Bill Proxmire's first hair." Liz is calling her new home in Texas "Grassroots." That way, she explains, her friends can visit...
...nightcap and thinks that it's her grandmother," says Italy's urbane Premier Giulio Andreotti. "But at the same time, I am not so reckless as to throw oil on the fire and ruin everything." Metaphorical mixture aside, such political caution and practicality explain how Christian Democrat Andreotti, 57, has managed for the past four months to keep a weak one-party government in power, primarily propped up by the "benevolent abstention" in Parliament of a strong Communist Party...
...spoke on the transatlantic telephone to Ford, and cornered Schmidt face to face at a European Community meeting in The Netherlands last week. Both men refused to budge on the conditions sought by the IMF. Some British Cabinet ministers were dazed at the news that Schmidt, a social democrat like the British Laborites, had been every bit as tough as Republican Ford...