Word: democraticizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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(3 of 10) But the trouble is they won't give you a key to the house. If you think you can move in and have any influence with Republicans, you're making a bad mistake." Connally "moved in" less than three years later. Why did he switch parties? He...
But their feuds were family quarrels; they remained cronies through it all. In October 1967 George Christian called upon Connally in Texas and told him that Johnson had secretly decided not to run for another term. Lady Bird Johnson was the only other person to know. They prepared a draft...
Hugh Gallen, Democratic Governor of New Hampshire, on energy and his state's 1980 primary: "If your pipes are frozen and you have a President on the streets asking for your vote, the voters are going to answer that gentleman."
In the meantime, the government closed down the offices of all but one opposition political party in Tehran. The exception was the National Front, the ineffectual old party of the late Premier Mohammed Mossadegh. The only party actually outlawed is the Kurdish Democratic Party, which is supporting the fight for...
On the military front, Hassan has been locked for almost four years in a no-win war against the guerrillas of the leftist Polisario Front, which is fighting to turn the barren but phosphate-rich, 103,000-sq.-mi. slab of desert into an independent "Saharan Arab Democratic Republic." At...