Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resign, taking the House off the hook. That, too, is true on both sides of the aisle, though no House Republican has thus far dared publicly voice the feeling. (On the Senate side, the only Republican to call for resignation so far has been Massachusetts' Edward Brooke.) Democrat Frank Thompson Jr. of New Jersey puts it bluntly: "Most guys hope and pray for a resignation. I can think of 25 Republicans I know who will have to vote for impeachment to save their skins...
Outside the South, many Republicans agree that the best thing that could happen to them is for Nixon to leave of fice. After a special election for California's state senate last month, in which Assemblyman Jerry Lewis was upset by a Democrat in a normally conservative district, the loser's stunned campaign aide said bitterly: "We can't stand this any longer. Nixon has got to step down." The President's removal from the scene, says a G.O.P. campaign official, would "give the voters what they want even more than gas and oil, and that...
Back in 1970, few Oklahomans gave Democrat David Hall much chance to win the state's gubernatorial race. He had failed in the primary four years earlier, and his opponent this time, Republican Incumbent Dewey F. Bartlett, was a millionaire in his own right and well financed by oil interests. Yet Hall persisted, showing the same determination that got him through the University of Tulsa law school (he drove a Pepsi truck), and then saw him become Tulsa County's chief prosecutor...
...patterns cannot be explained away by its monopolistic hold on the city. It has a long tradition of fair-minded coverage (a recent Journal-commissioned poll found that 60% of its readers feel that the paper is balanced. The remainder were evenly split between those who find it pro-Democrat and those who find it pro-Republican). Editor Dick Leonard insists that his reporters keep daily tab on all issues affecting Milwaukee. So close is its monitoring of local government that the pace of city office work slows perceptibly shortly after 1:30 each afternoon when the Journal appears - officials...
...other Knight dailies: the Akron Beacon-Journal, Boca Raton (Fla.) News, Bradenton (Fla.) Herald, Charlotte (N.C.) News and Observer, Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer and Ledger, Detroit Free Press, Lexington (Ky.) Herald and Leader, Macon (Ga.) News and Telegraph, Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News, and the Tallahassee Democrat...