Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ford also hoped to talk some conservative Southern Democrats into changing their votes. That strategy failed for a totally unanticipated reason: the conservatives' outrage over the intrusion of Vice President Nelson Rockefeller into the fight over making it easier to cut off Senate filibusters. Although Ford discussed the issue with Rockefeller, he was not directly involved in the Vice President's actions. One Administration lobbyist concluded that "a lot of conservatives are inclined to take out their frustrations on the President." At one point in the Senate debate, Louisiana Democrat Russell Long reddened with anger and declared...
...Chairman Al Ullman. Said he: "This is a serious tactical mistake. We are really playing Russian roulette with our own careers. What the people want is decisive leadership. Depletion is not even germane to this bill." If Congress is still wrangling over a tax measure in May, agreed another Democrat, "the President will be kicking our brains...
...Jews in the House of Representatives are also a potent arm of the Jewish lobby. Their informal leader is Illinois Democrat Sid Yates, in whose office they assemble whenever a legislative emergency affecting Israel is at hand. Each of these Congressmen also operates independently...
...assault on Percy suggested that Jewish reaction depends a lot upon how and where a sensitive Israeli topic is approached. Percy's senatorial colleague, Democrat Adlai Stevenson III, expressed similar warnings against Israeli foot-dragging on negotiations, but at a Bonds for Israel banquet and without the inflammatory words. Even AlPAC's Si Kenen, writing in the Jerusalem Post...
...message of the campaign brochure was slick and soothing: "Bentsen. He dreams dreams. But he doesn't chase rainbows." In announcing his candidacy last week for the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination, Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas was nonetheless pursuing a decided long shot. He made the announcement first in the Senate Caucus Room in Washington, then on the same day flew down for an instant replay for the home folks at Houston's Rice Hotel. Bentsen, 54, became the fifth Democrat on a list that could contain more than ten names before the longest presidential campaign in American...