Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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However, the book fails to provide some sort of understanding about what was going on within the Republican Party during the 1960s. Rockefeller often says that if he had been a Democrat, he would've been president long ago. This claim is an overstatement. Within the scope of his own career Rockefeller has demonstrated such consistent insensitivity to the mood of the national electorate that it is unlikely he could have succeeded with any party. But it's also true that a shift took place within the GOP; power was moving to the string of Southern and Western states that...
Less susceptible to persuasion was a union business agent from Pennsylvania. Said he: "The Southern Baptist thing still bothers a lot of people, including me. And Carter is an amateur surrounded by amateurs." But later he, too, softened: "At heart I'm a Democrat." Many more labor delegates shared the mood of Jim Mahoney, executive vice president of the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO: "There will be enthusiasm for Carter. AFL-CIO President George Meany wants to go all the way for the Democratic ticket, and we're starting now, not two months from...
...many Carters are there, for heaven's sake?" asked a bewildered Florida Democrat, who in one hard-breathing campaign week had been buttonholed by Jimmy, had his hand squeezed by Son Jack and received the "sweetest phone call you ever heard" from Wife Rosalynn. Like the Spanish moss that flourishes in the South, the Carters are conspicuous, tenacious and at times overwhelming. Most of them will be at the convention. If the pater familias is elected President, a Carter Administration will be a family affair...
...patronage system. The decision came on a case in Chicago where the Daley machine has become one of the nation's foremost practitioners of rewarding political loyalists with public jobs. About 1,000 Republicans working in the Cook County sheriffs office had been routinely turned out after a Democrat was elected in 1970. The court conceded that such firings may be necessary for policymaking officials, but in the words of Justice Stewart the First Amendment right of free speech is violated if "a nonpolicymaking, nonconfidential government employee can be discharged from a job that he is satisfactorily performing upon...
...Italian Premier Moro and British Prime Minister Callaghan listened attentively-but both face such sensitive political pressures at home they are not free to put the Puerto Rican summit advice into practice. Any Christian Democrat who forms a post-election Italian government will have to gain the support of the Communists for an effective economic stabilization plan. The result might be unacceptable to Western financial experts, and their refusal could push Italy farther down the path toward financial ruin-and hasten the time when the Italian Communists do come to power...