Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...freewheeling days of J. Edgar Hoover are over. Now Congress and the Executive branch must find ways to limit the FBI's activities and prevent future abuses of its vast powers. Last week several experts gave their recommendations to Democrat Frank Church's Senate Intelligence Committee. The proposals fell into four categories...
...observations, while casual and broad, are part of a long self-examination and political experience. I have spent seventeen years as an urban Democrat (from Queens) in the New York Sate Senate--eleven campaigns and endless contact with the needs and demands of my constituents. My principal contribution to politics is my ability to address difficult problems in depth and write about them at length; my publications, which have been remarkably accurate and influential, range from analyses of educational financing to advice to young people who get in trouble. I serve from time to time as Party Platform Chairman...
...housewife, age 45. mother of six and a Democrat, I nominate Betty Ford for TIME Person of the Year...
...treatment resembled the steps Ford had taken previously to calm down Kissinger, who was caught in yet another struggle by Congress to pry secret information out of the Administration. The Secretary had been outraged when the House committee, led by pugnacious New York Democrat Otis Pike, voted to cite him with three counts of contempt of Congress for not obeying its subpoenas to turn over three sets of top-secret documents. They are: 1) State Department recommendations on covert intelligence actions between 1962 and 1972, 2) National Security Council records of the Central Intelligence Agency's covert operations since...
Died. Clinton P. Anderson, 80, Secretary of Agriculture under President Harry Truman and a leading liberal Democrat in the U.S. Senate for nearly a quarter of a century; following a stroke; in Albuquerque. A former newspaper reporter and founder of an insurance company, Anderson was serving his third term as a Congressman from New Mexico when Truman, impressed by his detailed report on U.S. food shortages, offered him the Cabinet post; three years later, Anderson quit to make a successful run for the Senate. A member of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy from 1951 to 1973, Anderson...