Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bothered some critics, who charge that he is using his task-force job simply to buck for a promotion. "I don't think he or the task force has contributed one iota toward economic growth or foreign trade," complains State Development Board Member Pete J. Stathakis, a Democrat. A top official of the State Board of Health, one of several agencies with which Westmoreland works closely, says the general "has got to learn that he cannot run us like a bunch of privates and get cooperation." But on the whole, Westy gets good marks for his effort in what...
...secret about his interest in the job, saying that he thinks "more nonprofessional politicians should run for office." But there are problems with jumping into an Eisenhower-like political career, even on the state level. For one thing, Westmoreland must first decide, as Ike did, whether he is a Democrat or a Republican. He has never even voted, much less joined a political party. "I always encouraged nonprofessional soldiers to vote, but as a career officer I would not be partisan," he explains. "I had to give my complete loyalty to whoever was Commander in Chief. Then in 1972, after...
Died. Richard F. Cleveland, 76, eldest son of Democratic President Grover Cleveland and a prominent Maryland attorney; in Baltimore. Cleveland, who represented Whittaker Chambers in the libel suit brought by Alger Hiss, was active in the presidential campaigns of one Democrat, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and three Republicans, Alfred Landon, Wendell Willkie and Dwight D. Eisenhower...
...People tell me they wish I'd worry more about energy and the economy and less about Watergate," says Nunn, 35, a conservative Democrat. "This is not to say they don't deplore Watergate. But people down here want to keep things in perspective. They want the truth, but they don't want to kill the country. They don't want to wake up six months from now to be told, O.K., we've got all the truth about Watergate, but now we've got you a depression...
...trial that you 'happened to be a Republican,' I am sure that you meant that you vote Republican. The Watergate case is the epitome of judicial nonpartisanship and a shining reflection of the fact that when you don your robe, you are neither a Republican nor a Democrat but simply a federal judge in search of the truth, no matter where it lies. I can only hope that if I am ever called upon to sit in a political case involving Democrats, I will have the courage to emulate your example...