Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Judiciary Committee focused on larger questions, stretching but by no means snapping Rockefeller's capacity to respond. The committee's concern was, fundamentally, the possibility of unceasing conflict of interest if Rockefeller should become President. With a kind of waspish persistence that the Senators had not employed, Democrat Don Edwards wanted to know how Rocky could not avoid making decisions that would affect his own or his family's holdings...
What perplexed the Senators was the number of apples that Rocky gave away. In a bemused tone of voice, Alabama Democrat James B. Allen observed that all of Rockefeller's appointees seemed to have had two qualities in common: "a state of impecuniousness and a desire not always to remain in that state." Replied Rocky: "That's a common trait of almost all Americans, and that's one reason this country has done so well." Could it be, Allen persisted, that Rockefeller was considered a "soft touch" by his employees? Rockefeller shot back...
...outset, but faded as the campaign wore on. In California, 32-year-old Republican David Rehmann, six years a P.O.W., lost his bid for Congress to Santa Ana Mayor Jerry Patterson. In Georgia, Republican Quincy Collins, 43, an ex-Air Force colonel and a seven-year P.O.W., battled Democrat Larry McDonald for a seat in Congress and lost. Maine Democrat Markham L. Gartley, 30, a onetime Navy lieutenant who spent four years in a P.O.W. camp, had no chance to unseat Republican William Cohen of House Judiciary Committee fame...
...Blacks continued their advance into and up the political ranks. By 574 votes, Tennessee Democrat Harold E. Ford, 29, upset Republican Congressman Dan Kuykendall, bringing the number of blacks in the House of Representatives to 17. In Colorado, Democrat George Brown was elected Lieutenant Governor, and State Senator Mervyn Dymally gained the same post in California-the first blacks to win that office in any state since Reconstruction. Most impressive, however, was the hold blacks maintained on elective offices they already occupy and the dramatic increase of black officials in the South. Across the nation, nearly all black state legislators...
...duly noted by U.S. Administrations, then quickly forgotten. (Such was the fate of a 1969 Rockefeller Report on Latin America that criticized U.S. interference in the affairs of Latin American nations.) This time there is good reason to believe that Washington is paying attention; William D. Rogers, a Kennedy Democrat who helped draw up the study, is now Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs and will be a leading member of the U.S. delegation to Quito. Rogers has said that he would like to see a normalization of relations with Cuba, including eventual U.S. recognition...