Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the Senate confirmation last week of Attorney General Elliot Richardson and the implicit approval of his chosen special prosecutor, Archibald Cox, the stage is set for an all-out pursuit of the guilty: Democrat Cox, an aggressive Solicitor General in the Kennedy Administration, declared in Richardson's presence that he did not intend to "shield anybody, and I don't intend to be intimidated by anybody...
...vice chairman, Tennessee Republican Howard H. Baker Jr. He grinned readily at unexpected or tight-hearted answers, but bore in effectively to clarify testimony. Florida Republican Edward J. Gurney, senatorially handsome, used a deep and resonant voice to pose well-reasoned and sequential follow-up questions. Hawaii Democrat Daniel K. Inouye, almost as melodious but terser, intoned crisp, relevant queries. Readiest with information of his own was Connecticut Republican Lowell P. Weicker Jr., who may turn out to be the roughest and most combative of the commit tee members. Georgia Democrat Herman E. Talmadge scowled frequently but talked the least...
...like that?" He seems an excellent nominee. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School, a distinguished member of the Eastern Establishment which sometimes makes Nixon uneasy. More important, he is widely respected as what Ted Kennedy termed "a man of brilliance, judgment and sensitivity." He is also a Democrat, which will help create that aura of independence...
...California coast in the mostly blue-collar city of Oakland, incumbent Mayor John H. Reading, 55, won re-election by nearly 2 to 1 over Black Panther Party Co-Founder Bobby Scale, 36. Although Scale ran as a Democrat and had dropped the rhetoric of the Panthers to campaign on bread-and-butter issues, his reputation as a revolutionary lingered. Reading, mayor since 1966, asserts that he won because "my programs were best for the city...
...changed his tune after a 5½-hour grilling by a Senate subcommittee last Monday. During the closed-door session, Cook admitted to Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire that he had held three or four meetings with Mitchell and/or Stans to discuss how the Vesco contribution should be handled in the SEC complaint. There had even been a cozy tête-à-tête with Stans at a goose hunt in Eagle Lake, Texas...