Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile he is welcoming the advice, often sought, sometimes unsolicited, of the whole imposing Democratic Foreign Policy Establishment, and putting its members to work on speeches, position papers, background studies. He is said to see some safety in numbers, in keeping all these influential people busy and hopeful, and also finds their ideas useful. The things that "really bug him," according to one Democrat who sometimes talks foreign policy with him, are people claiming to be advisers who aren't, and anybody visibly "running" for Secretary of State...
...primaries, the voters repudiated familiar old politicians; Ford's great powers of incumbency could not stop Reagan from bouncing back after successive defeats in the first five primaries. The voters were smitten by fresh faces, unblemished by Washington?not only Carter and Reagan but also, toward the end, by Democrat Jerry Brown. Democratic favorites fell like bowling pins. Henry Jackson, the early front runner, did not even survive the first half of the primary season, and even Carter got a scare at the end. Liberals fared worst of all: the Democrats rejected Fred Harris, Mo Udall, Birch Bayh, Sargent Shriver...
...staffers say has been flatly ruled out on the basis of too little experience and too much eccentricity. Carter's advisers say both blacks and women are being considered: Detroit Mayor Coleman Young and Texas Congresswoman Barbara Jordan are two of the names being floated. The most prominent Democrat on the anticipated Carter list, Senator...
...quelling the troublemakers and reopening the school, Hayakawa became something of a hero to conservatives and was appointed San Francisco State's regular president. His entry into Republican politics was hindered by one detail: he was an enrolled Democrat, a flaw that he did not remedy until three years...
...members of Congress, FBI agents have been interviewing hotel desk clerks, among others, to discover Ray's other playmates. Another cozy arrangement came to light when Colleen Gardner, 30, decided to tell much, if not all. A former secretary to Congressman John Young, 59, a Texas Democrat, Gardner claims that she received large pay raises-her salary had gone from $8,500 to nearly $26,000 when she quit in March-on condition that she sleep with the boss. She was also friendly with a few of Young's friends. Unlike Ray, Gardner is a qualified and apparently...