Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...possibilities of error in such calculations. At the moment, for example, Illinois seems beyond McGovern's grasp without cooperation from Chicago Mayor Richard Daley. Texas, which went for Humphrey, looks ripe for Nixon because of McGovern's liberalism and the blunt opposition of John Connally, the Texas Democrat who has defected to the Republican Administration...
...party campaign. Some of his aides suggested a media campaign that would let the Governor stay at home in his wheelchair, but that is not his style. If he led a third party, he might take electoral votes in the South away from Nixon, and keep enough conservative northern Democratic voters from switching to Nixon to give McGovern a chance in states like Michigan. That he intends to remain a good Democrat is bad news for McGovern...
...Democrat," the mayor said firmly at a news conference...
...were varied. In Yemen, he reopened diplomatic relations for the first time since the Six-Day War; in Greece he acted moderately chummy with the colonels and reaffirmed U.S.-Greek ties under NATO (the political opposition boycotted Rogers during the visit). In the case of John Connally, the Texas Democrat who resigned last May 16 as Treasury Secretary, the meaning of the mission was a good deal more elusive...
...Liberal Democrat elders soon found that they could not do without Tanaka's proven talents as a vote getter. As secretary-general of the party during the 1969 elections, Tanaka masterminded the campaign that won the L.D.P. 300 of the 491 seats in the lower house of the Diet. At times, however, Tanaka has been an embarrassment to his party. Even after he took on Cabinet-level responsibilities, Tanaka continued to pursue his wide-ranging building and real estate interests. Though most Japanese politicians retain their business interests, Tanaka has been accused of not always keeping separate his public...