Word: democraticized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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If ever the Republicans had a chance I to make political capital," says California Pollster Mervin Field, "it is now." With the latest polls showing that only 30% of the voters approve of Jimmy Carter's performance in office, the Republicans might be expected to exploit such traditional issues...
Early this summer, Premier Takeo Fukuda decided to resume the talks. With the presidency of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party up for election in December and rival candidates calling for the treaty with China for both trade and security reasons, Fukuda needed a foreign policy coup to bolster his position...
Jim Wilmot, reports TIME New York Correspondent Robert Parker, has always known how to mix business and politics. Son of an Irish immigrant tailor, Wilmot left high school to help support his family and, by 21, was deeply involved in Rochester's Democratic politics. Through political connections, he got...
As he prospered, Wilmot became an important Democratic Party fund raiser. He has entertained New York Governor Hugh Carey and Robert Kennedy in his Rochester home. After his unsuccessful presidential campaign in 1968, Hubert Humphrey relaxed at Wilmot's 400-acre hunting reserve at Mendon, N.Y. Wilmot, his friends...
Wilmot helped organize Democratic fundraising dinners in the mid-1970s, when Robert Strauss headed the Democratic National Committee and funneled legal work on his aviation and real estate interests to Strauss's Dallas law firm. When Strauss left the board of Columbia Pictures to join the Carter Administration last...