Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senate by a one-vote margin last May, picked up momentum in the House. This came after Secretary of State Henry Kissinger pleaded his case to 125 members over cocktails and President Ford discussed the matter with 140 Representatives at breakfast. Ford endorsed a compromise bill offered by Pennsylvania Democrat Thomas E. Morgan. Rather than full resumption of aid, as Kissinger urged, the bill would allow Turkey to receive $51 million worth of military equipment for which it has already paid, and buy another $133 million worth of arms. Ford, in return, would have to report to Congress every...
MASSACHUSETTS' PAUL TSONGAS. He campaigned on the slogan "This Democrat can make a big difference in Congress." Today, a half-year into his term, Tsongas, 34, is hard pressed to pinpoint what he has been able to do that has made any real difference to anyone. He admits: "This has been a manic-depressive six months...
Thompson's opposition for the nomination, conservative Republican Richard Cooper, chairman of Weight Watchers of Chicago Inc., is thought to be negligible. Thompson's real challenge will be to defeat incumbent Democrat Daniel Walker, 52, a tough party maverick who walked the state to win election three years ago in defiance of Richard Daley's political machine. Along with his impressive track record, Thompson enters the race, according to a survey conducted by Market Opinion Research of Detroit Co., with a 75% statewide recognition factor and a job approval percentage of 80. In a recent telephone poll...
With a few due compliments, she yielded the floor to Terry Sanford, a lanky grey-haired Democrat from North Carolina Sanford posed stiffly at the podium. Pushing honesty from his rail splitting brows to his log cabin tweeds. "I would like to quote from Abigail Adams. Do not put unlimited power in the hands of the husbands or we will be prompted to foment revolution. Well I hope that ERA passes. I'm not just offering you empty promises because throughout my political life what I've promised I've always kept. I would like to include in the Democratic...
...presidential hopefuls were jittering around Boston City Hall, making nice to the caucus delegates and observers who had laid out fifteen dollars to drink a little wine and listen to the candidates make their bids. Fred Harris, a Democrat from Oklahoma, stood in a corner greeting strangers like long-lost friends...