Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...radio and TV spots is battering the ears of New Hampshire voters. Gerald Ford: "He is the only Republican who can win in November." Ronald Reagan: "He will provide the strong new leadership America needs." Jimmy Carter: "A calm voice in a sea of shouters." Mo Udall: "The Democrat for President." Birch Bayh: "It takes a good politician to make a good President." Which pitch will set this year's perhaps unprecedented numbers of undecided voters to humming the candidate's tune? First in New Hampshire next Tuesday, then a week later in Massachusetts and a week after...
...social programs even if it means further unbalancing the budget. People are decidedly more cheerful about the economy and the future of the country than they were several months ago. And the preference of voters-if the two parties' nominees are of equivalent stature-is strongly for a Democrat to be elected President. Nonetheless, President Ford has distinctly improved his standing in the past five months...
...issue has become how to keep secrets rather than how to preserve freedom," said Idaho Democrat Frank Church, the disheartened chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Though exaggerated, Church's complaint reflected the growing gloom in Congress over the Senate and House investigations of the CIA, FBI and other U.S. undercover agencies. The probe has been discredited by the inability of many Congressmen and their staffers to keep a secret. Result: there is as much worry over leaks as there is over the abuses that were leaked...
They could indeed. The new revelations, forced out by a Senate subcommittee headed by Idaho Democrat Frank Church, named those in high places who got some of the $22 million to $24 million that Lockheed Aircraft Corp. has said it paid to spur sales of its aircraft overseas. The major repercussions...
...looking first of all for student political writing, and second, for off-beat articles by people who do get published all the time but would never ordinarily write pieces out of their fields. Nieman Fellows are a case in point--James Scudder, a city editor for the Arkansas Democrat, wrote on power vacuums and irresponsibility at Harvard in the HPR last winter...