Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...social and economic programs favored by liberals. Further, at Humphrey's 65th birthday celebration in Minneapolis last week, Kennedy joked about his political ambitions but did not deny them. In fact, he has not changed his mind about not wanting the nomination this year. Said a top Democrat: "He told me that he was just doing what he's doing to help Hubert, and I have no reason to doubt that what he said is the truth...
Thus for all the psychological setbacks, there was still a feeling of inevitability about Carter's nomination. According to the New York Times/CBS survey, he is the only Democrat who would now beat Gerald Ford and carry the South. The real surprise is the remarkable rise of Brown. No figures from the poll were disclosed, but the news organizations reported that while Ford bested both Brown and Humphrey, Brown would run almost as strongly as the Minnesota Senator...
...have been all that original in the U.S. Congress, but the public confession certainly was. After two days of lying about it, Ohio Democrat Wayne Hays stood in an unusually hushed House chamber and admitted that he had carried on an affair with Elizabeth Ray, 33, whom he employed as a $14,000-a-year committee clerk although she claims that she can neither type nor file. The portly Congressman, 65, who in January divorced one wife after 38 years of marriage and six weeks ago wed his secretary, denied only that Miss Ray's federal salary was awarded...
...Hays, she left for Hollywood in the spring of 1975. "I'd been giving Academy Award performances once a week," she told the Washington Post. When she returned from the West Coast last July after failing to land even a cocktail waitress job, Hays asked South Carolina Democrat Mendel J. Davis to put her on his staff. As a member of Hays' House Administration Committee, Davis, 33, was eager to oblige the chairman. After a month or so Liz asked to rejoin Hays. He placed her on the committee payroll as a clerk. When she sought a raise...
...sought out a Post reporter she had met by chance. Reporters found her in a luxurious unnumbered office in the new Longworth House Office Building. It has only two desks, while a dozen staffers are crammed next door into New York Democrat Bella Abzug's similar-size quarters. Liz claims she rarely bothered to go to the office. Indeed, she lived in a cheaply furnished apartment in suburban Arlington, Va., where shopkeepers at Vincent & Vincent Boutique recall her as a leisurely midweek shopper who showed no concern about being away during office hours...