Word: democratically
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...cool and fluent witness. Though he absorbed some telling blows as the questioning continued into the weekend, Lance clearly picked up some support on the 17-member committee. As of last week, the committee apparently was almost evenly divided. Seven Senators leaned toward support of the Budget Director (Democrats Thomas Eagleton, Henry Jackson, John Glenn, Sam Nunn, James Sasser, and Lawton Chiles and Republican John Danforth); six seemed to oppose him (Democrat Abraham Ribicoff and Republicans Charles Percy, Jacob Javits, Charles Mathias, William Roth and H. John Heinz). Four Senators appeared undecided (Democrats Ed Muskie and John McClellan were absent...
...weeks ago Carter was vigorously defending Lance ("Bert, I'm proud of you"). But the Budget Director's position deteriorated rapidly just before, during and immediately after the long Labor Day weekend. A trio of Senators played key roles: Majority Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia; Connecticut Democrat Abraham Ribicoff, chairman of the Governmental Affairs Committee; and Charles Percy of Illinois, the committee's top Republican. They argued that prolonging Lance's travail not only would be futile, but could seriously impair the President's ability to promote such Administration priorities as the Panama Canal treaty and the energy program...
Last week Democratic Representative Fernand St Germain, chairman of a House banking subcommittee, sounded a battle cry for the reformers as he opened hearings on bank law enforcement, including the Lance case. St Germain called for "a serious and vigorous effort to improve the nation's banking codes," particularly in such back-scratching areas as "insider lending, tie-ins among banking institutions and the ease with which changes in bank control are financed." Said he: "The evidence I have seen to date leads me to believe that Bert Lance, his family and friends regarded the Calhoun First National Bank...
...better off and regain their independence. The question to be answered by the union leaders is: Will they accept the people's verdict in an election, or will they make a mockery of democracy? Are they really saying that it is impossible to be a socialist and a democrat at the same time? In fact, our union leaders have publicly stated, as you would expect, that they will work with any properly elected government...
Another woman claimed she didn't know where she was politically. A black man from Michigan said, "I follow the same politics as may parents do--don't most people? I'm a Democrat." The same man said he wants to go to medical school, because "I'm interested in science and math, and also, I guess there's a lot of money in medicine." He said he is satisfied, so far, with relationships between blacks and whites at Harvard, and of the school itself, "It's beautiful. I really love...