Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Republican Jacob Javits of New York and Rhode Island Democrat Claiborne Pell visited Cuba last September. Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy is planning to go in June...
Investigations by Special Watergate Prosecutor Leon Jaworski's office led to convictions or guilty pleas for 27 aides and agents of former President Richard Nixon. Last week they were joined by a former top aide to a high-ranking Democrat. A federal court in Manhattan convicted Minneapolis Lawyer Jack L. Chestnut, 42, who managed Hubert Humphrey's comeback campaign for the Senate in 1970, of accepting $12,000 in illegal campaign contributions from Associated Milk Producers...
Marglin didn't pay any more attention to Mary as he went on to graduate studies in economics and picked up his Ph.D. in 1963. He espoused a liberal Democrat's line, arguing in 1960 with his parents--who were considerably more leftist than he that Kennedy and Nixon really were different. He didn't see much that he could change in America, so he took his Ph.D. and good intentions to India, a neo-classicist Peace Corps man. At the time, he didn't realize it, but he was joining a Harvard generation of future radical economists in Third...
...business in Washington; you would do well to get with the right people." Kalmbach suggested that Steinbrenner should give $3,000 to each of 33 Nixon committees and $1,000 to another. Total: $100,000. Steinbrenner did just that. After he reluctantly became a Democrat for Nixon, his Government troubles faded (though he later received a fine for illegally using corporate funds as political donations). When O'Neill heard Steinbrenner's story, he knew he was in the presence of a "plain, old-fashioned goddamned shakedown." Thereafter, he began saying of Nixon, "This fellow is going...
...bank, which is sponsored by Assembly Speaker Stanley Steingut and 65 other lawmakers, will be submitted for a vote in the legislature probably within 30 days. Steingut claims that he has the votes to get the bill passed in the Assembly and Governor Hugh Carey, a Democrat, would be amenable if public response is favorable. During two days of hearings in Manhattan last week, the committee heard fervent praise for the idea from several speakers, including Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader...