Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...complexities of the grain market are too confusing to permit quick conclusions on whether the Nixon Administration's wheat deal with the Soviet Union led to improper profits and thus amounts to another scandal from which the Democrats ought to be able to reap campaign benefits. But one facet of the highly complex situation looked like a clear-cut case of conflict of interest. Two high Government officials involved in the negotiations with the Russians quit their Agriculture Department jobs to take top positions with two U.S. exporting firms that had much to gain from the Soviet sales. Last...
Ironically, the Conservation Foundation report was commissioned by the man whom it implicitly excoriates, George B. Hartzog Jr., 52, director of the National Park Service. Hartzog is known as a consummate politician, the last high-ranking Democrat in the Nixon Administration. Since his appointment in 1964, he has persuaded Congress to add 2.5 million acres to the national park system...
These losses are not localized: President Nixon is discouragingly far ahead to a Democrat pondering a campaign role. But despite the bleary immediate prospect for the McGovern campaign, despite the changing nature of activist student organizations. Harvard is not politically detached. More likely, its students are only now catching up to the incredibly rapid developments between 1967 and 1970--a period in which activism sifted down the educational ladder to become a new vogue for wily high school freshmen...
...Barnes made a bid for governor, but finished third to Farenthold and Dolph Briscoe, who were forced into a run-off. Briscoe, a conservative Democrat of the Johnson-Connally line, beat Farenthold, and will be a shoe-in against a weak Republican challenger in November...
...grand jury investigation also did not go into allegations of mishandled campaign funds, a charge brought against the C.R.P. by the General Accounting Office. The Justice Department has not yet even asked the FBI to investigate those accusations. With the Democrats' civil suit against the Re-Election Committee now apparently stalled in the courts, Democrats in Congress are taking up the challenge, in hopes of learning more before the election. Last week the House Banking and Currency Committee, headed by Texas Democrat Wright Patman, issued a report detailing the movement of $100,000 in Nixon campaign contributions through Mexico...