Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There are no two Pat Moynihans in America," Kissinger remarked with apparent relief. The U.N. job has been offered to William Scranton, former Republican Governor of Pennsylvania, though he turned it down once before. Cracked a top State Department aide: "We're not going to give another Democrat a platform to run for the Senate." Other possibilities being mentioned for the post are Clarence Mitchell, director of the Washington bureau of the N.A.A.C.P., and Shirley Temple Black...
...four-page newsletter mailed to his constituents last fall, California Democrat John V. Tunney used the words "I" or "the Senator" 25 times on the first page, 64 times in all. Among politicians, that is not excessive or unusual. But Republican Congressman Alphonzo Bell, who is running for Tunney's seat this year, complained to the Senate Select Committee on Standards and Conduct that the Senator was abusing his franking privilege to promote his reelection...
Wisconsin Republican Robert Kasten could take no more. Before his colleagues on the House Intelligence Committee last week, he angrily addressed Chairman Otis Pike, a Democrat from New York. "Do something," he demanded, to stanch the leaks that were discrediting the committee with its friends in Congress as well as its foes in the Administration. With an irate glare, Pike shot back: "What do you recommend? Lie detector tests? I do not know where the leaks have come from...
What was Moynihan up to? Was he trying to protect himself against a State Department cabal? Did he really feel threatened by Kissinger's often unflattering private comments about him? Or was Democrat Moynihan trying to get fired, thus setting the stage for a martyred resignation so he could go after Conservative Senator James Buckley's New York seat this year...
Some of the most pointed political commentary nowadays takes place on a stage that measures only about 20 square inches. A crowd of young editorial cartoonists have begun to dignify what Oldtimer Don Hesse of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat calls "the ungentlemanly...