Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...advocate of a united Europe, he scored a kind of diplomatic grand slam by heading embassies in Bonn (under Dwight Eisenhower) and London (under John Kennedy) as well as Paris. His last assignment, fittingly, was as Ambassador to NATO, and ended only last year. Though Bruce was a lifelong Democrat, Richard Nixon named him to head the American delegation at the Viet Nam peace talks in Paris, and later the U.S. liaison office in Peking. Said West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, upon Bruce's departure from Bonn: "If you Americans can't stand Bruce back here...
...Paul A. Volcker, 50, president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank and vice chairman of the Fed's powerful Open Market Committee. A Democrat who was Treasury Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs during the Nixon Administration, Volcker is considered a bit too much of a monetarist by some of the Keynesian economists around Carter...
...insisted to TIME Correspondent Stanley Cloud, "people around here are more and more aware that a big part of the game in this town is on the Hill." Besides, Moore argues, some friction between the White House and Congress is inevitable during the transition from a Republican to a Democratic Administration. "Every Democrat on the Hill had a backlog of people he wanted jobs for," Moore says. His office still gets 1,000 calls a day (down from 2,000 nine months ago) for everything from jobs to appointments with the President. He has had to learn by experience which...
...Republican or Democrat? Ray never had decided before, since Washington does not have party registration. She chose the Democrats because, she says, "although I tend to be fiscally conservative, I believe in the philosophy of the Democratic Party...
...fact that Ray has turned out to be something of an autocrat, who insists on loyalty at every level. One of her first acts was to replace the staff at the Governor's mansion, including some servants who had been there for years. Her aides, says one fellow Democrat, "aren't just yes people. They're yes-yes-yes people. She intimidates all of them." Her audiences are no longer composed of students, but she treats them like students. At the Western Governors conference in Anchorage this fall, she would clasp her hands and begin to lecture, almost...