Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...full Senate. "I have attempted to answer every question," he said. "You are not buying a pig in a poke." Almost abjectly, he described himself as innocently caught in a crossfire: "Now in the middle stands your humble and obedient servant, Pat Gray." Under heavy questioning by California Democrat John...
Tunney, Gray said wistfully at one point: "I enjoyed my visit to your office, and I thought there was some affinity there." Claiming that "the FBI needs a leader," Gray urged speedy action. This led Massachusetts Democrat Edward Kennedy to observe aloud that Nixon had taken a long time to present Gray's nomination...
...recognition of his Thespian talents, he was more or less seriously offered a leading role in the Broadway production of Sleuth; but he plans to stick to politics despite his disastrous showing in last year's presidential primaries, after he switched from Republican to Democrat. Now 51, he may run for Governor against his archfoe Nelson Rockefeller in 1974, or he may wait until 1976 to challenge Conservative-Republican Senator James Buckley. By then, he can only hope that New Yorkers will have forgotten how much they disliked him as a mayor...
...Suck on that, you reactionaries!" crowed Santiago's pro-government newspaper, Puro Chile. It certainly had something to crow about: Socialist President Salvador Allende Gossens' Popular Unity Coalition had just managed a surprisingly strong showing in the national parliamentary elections against a special coalition of Christian Democrat and National parties...
...relaxed night at the White House, the President invited 250 guests to join him for an evening with Entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. Davis, a notably lapsed Democrat, reminded his audience of the moment in Miami Beach when he locked the President in a now famous bear hug at the Republican National Convention: "Where else but in America could one grown man hug another grown man and get invited to his house?" Another of Nixon's friends, Businessman C.G. ("Bebe") Rebozo, observed, "It's funny but President Nixon and Sammy Davis Jr. are a lot alike -in a very...