Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Edward Levi, president of the University of Chicago, has been proposed as Attorney General. The selection is under fire from Senator James Eastland, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who considers him too liberal. Levi has not revealed whether he is indeed a Democrat...
Running in that election for one of New Hampshire's seats in the U.S. Senate, Republican Congressman Louis C. Wyman at first appeared to have defeated Democrat John A. Durkin by 542 votes out of 236,140 cast. A re-count requested by Durkin pronounced him the winner by ten, and he jokingly began calling himself "Landslide." Then Wyman asked for a review and that put him on top by two, making the vote the closest for the Senate since the 17th Amendment in 1913 established the popular election of candidates...
...intention to take his seat in Congress next week, and pledged full support to Oregon's Al Ullman, the new Ways and Means chairman. Most of Mills' committee colleagues welcomed his return. "He's still the most knowledgeable tax man on the committee," said Illinois Democrat Daniel Rostenkowski. "If he can really lick this thing, he can be one of the most effective members of the committee. It'll be like Socrates having the students sitting at his feet while he passes out tips on taxes." But not unless Mills steers completely clear of strippers...
...deposed Edward Heath and reinstated Harold Wilson. France's Georges Pompidou died in April and was replaced by the progressive conservative Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. West Germany's Willy Brandt resigned in the shadow of a spy scandal, and was succeeded by moderate Social Democrat Helmut Schmidt. Italy lost its 31st government of the postwar era. Portugal deposed Marcello Caetano, the dictatorial heir of Salazar. Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie was stripped of hereditary power going back 2,500 years and trundled off to house arrest by a military junta...
...seemingly circuitous routes, back to Harvard include an expanded congressional school or, if the Kennedy Institute doesn't develop that adequately, alternative congressional briefings to junior and senior congressmen along the lines suggested in Brewer's* recent paper. (Your chance conversation with [Mark] Talisman [assistant to Rep. Charles Vanick, Democrat of Ohio] on Saturday was a help in all this.) If your letter to [Caspar] Weinberger [secretary of Health, Education and Welfare] creates a thoughtful exchange, and if he and you will approve sharing that with selected persons or groups, this would be another example of increased communications...