Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President Nixon has been able to translate the ideals of John F. Kennedy into action," J. Brian Smith, the chief writer for Domestic Affairs of the Republican National Committee, said yesterday. Smith added that he, as a Kennedy Democrat, had no qualms about becoming a Nixon Republican...
...years ago. Drinan, a talkative abase dean of the Boston College Law School challenged 12-year member Rep. Philip J. Philbin for the Democratic nomination in what was then Massachusetts's Third Congressional District Running on the wave of 1970's Kent State Cambodia uprisings. Drinan's issue was the war, and beyond that support for the administration. Philbin the second ranking Democrat on Mendel Rivers's House Armed Services Committee was a long-time hawk and administration supporter, Drinan wasn...
...plate dinner in keeping with his more modestly financed campaign, McGovern denounced the war with such graphic descriptions of napalm, pineapple bombs and steel fleshettes that the audience seemed to applaud in relief at the end. Still, crowds were more attentive than usual. "He sounds more like a Democrat," said Frank Mankiewicz. "I don't think he'll ever be a good old boy, but I think the party leaders like him more...
...endorsement last week by the New York Times. The Nixon Administration, said the Times, "appears to be without basic philosophy, without deeply held values, an Administration whose guiding principle is expediency." While less than totally enthusiastic about McGovern, the paper argued that on virtually every major issue, the Democrat "seems to us to be moving with the right priorities...
...presidential campaign apparently has turned a corner of sorts-at least in the public-opinion polls. He is beginning to narrow the huge lead held by Richard Nixon. Both the Gallup poll and Harris survey now place McGovern 28 percentage points behind Nixon, a gain for the Democrat of six points since the previous surveys by both polling firms...