Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week Kleindienst overruled Gray, insisting that the FBI's Watergate files would be open only to the Judiciary Committee Chairman, Mississippi Democrat James Eastland, and the committee's ranking Republican, Nebraska's Roman Hruska. When Kleindienst ordered Gray not to answer any more questions about Watergate, Gray was forced into the humiliating position of refusing to respond to the Senators. "I respectfully decline to answer that question," he would say, his bass voice sometimes quavering as he sounded uncomfortably like someone taking the Fifth Amendment...
John Connally, a Democrat but getting ready for a political sex change, is an awesome accumulative sight right now in Texas. Some Capital attorneys believe that Connally's potential take was raised by a few million just because Nixon mentioned casually that Old John was doing a few jobs for the White House while he was going around the world on his law business...
...opposite sides-Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller and Alex Rose, the state's Liberal Party chieftain-joined to announce that they had agreed on who should be the next mayor. Their stated purpose was to save New York City after eight years of erratic rule by Republican-turned-Democrat John Vliet Lindsay, who has dropped out of the race...
Still stranger than the Rocky-Rose partnership was their choice of a savior: Democrat Robert Ferdinand Wagner, 62, the man who had served three terms as mayor, from 1954 to 1965. As mayor, Wagner made some advances in civil rights, increased the police force and kept peace with the unions; but in many other areas he exhibited a glacial inertia, and he left the city with more potholes in its streets and more holes in its civic pride than he had inherited. Indeed, Rockefeller and Rose supported Lindsay in 1965 as the man who could best "save" New York City...
...conditions. He must, Wagner insisted, pick his own running mates. To charges that he would be the captive of Rocky and Rose, Wagner snapped with unwonted acerbity: "I've never been a puppet and I never intend to be a puppet." Repeatedly he proclaimed: "I am a liberal Democrat and always have been." As for next year's gubernatorial race: "I will support a good Democratic candidate...