Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...executive suites, the bewilderment is no different. Said Bell & Howell Chairman Donald Frey: "I'm both puzzled and appalled. I just can't get the words and the music together." Sighed lifelong Democrat Newton Minow, former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission and a Carter supporter: "The Cabinet is not the problem. It is the people in the White House. Elevating Ham Jordan is no answer...
...only is the Armed Services panel more familiar with the weaponry covered by SALT, but also a number of committee members have been outspoken critics of the accord. Yet the treaty had smooth sailing last week, except for occasional heated exchanges sparked by Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, the powerful Democrat from the state of Washington, who is a leading SALT...
Treaty backers found some small hope in Haig's vague statement. They were even more cheered by an unexpectedly early signal from Senator Sam Nunn. The Georgia Democrat announced that he would vote for SALT II if annual defense spending were boosted about 5% (after inflation) for the next five years. Said he: "In the absence of such a commitment, the SALT II treaty will become nothing more than an instrument for registering emerging Soviet military superiority...
There were, however, many successful politicians in the group, the most obvious being Ted Kennedy, the Democrat leading in presidential polls. Georgia's Senator Sam Nunn has become a respected and conservative expert on military affairs. Seventeen won their first elections or gained higher offices. These Include a gaggle of Governors: Tennessee's Lamar Alexander, California's Jerry Brown, West Virginia's Jay Rockefeller, Illinois' James Thompson and Delaware's Pierre DuPont IV. There was also a spate of new Senators: New Jersey's Bill Bradley, Michigan's Don Riegle, Missouri...
...Anthony Toby Moffett, 34. "What happens when a Nader Raider comes to Congress?" mused the Connecticut Democrat in 1975, shortly after his election. Four years later, Moffett admits: "I'm trying to find the fine line between screaming all the time and being a member of the club." Last January he outmaneuvered three senior Representatives to win the chairmanship of the powerful Subcommittee on Environment, Energy and Natural Resources. A second-generation American with Lebanese grandparents, Moffett, who studied government at Syracuse University and Boston College, is a longtime defender of consumer rights. He has spoken out against high energy...