Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cheers his every utterance. Though he sports double-knit suits and fashionably longer hair, Humphrey still suffers from being as out of style as the crew cut, the rumble seat or high-button shoes in a state where voters like their politicians to be with it. As one ranking Democrat in California cracked: "Hubert Humphrey is to politics what Lawrence Welk is to music...
...Connally made those off-the-cuff remarks, he had already served notice upon his most recent employer, President Richard M. Nixon. The subsequent announcement of his decision to resign as Secretary of the Treasury sent tremors through Washington. In the 15 months that he has worked as the only Democrat in Nixon's Cabinet, Connally emerged as an extraordinarily powerful figure in Washington and abroad. Tall, immaculately tailored, silver-haired and handsome-a sort of Florentine prince from Texas -Connally left the negotiators for great nations awed by his skill as a bargainer. His execution of a revamped...
Businessmen almost unanimously fault Nixon for allowing inflation to rage much too long before imposing controls. When he finally did put on controls, however, he won new sympathy from executives, including Democrats. "You have to give him credit for having the flexibility to change from a disastrous policy of tight money and laissez-faire," says Howard Stein, head of the Dreyfus Corp., who was chief fund raiser for the 1968 campaign of Democrat Eugene McCarthy...
...average Princeton man, ten years out of college, would earn more than $20,000, prefer Marlboros (if he smokes), German cars and Jack Daniel's, live in a colonial home decorated in contemporary style, wear his hair longer than he used to, and choose Richard Nixon over any Democrat.* He might even guess that 41% of Princeton's class of 1962 have tried drugs, or that 24% have tried extramarital sex-all deductions confirmed in a ten-years-later booklet just issued by the class. Who would imagine, though, that the average member of the class...
Michael Harrington-social democrat, pacifist, intellectual, born Roman Catholic but out of practice-has the scrubbed, care-lined radiance of a man who in other circumstances might well have been a worker-priest, American style. Instead, he is a revolutionary pamphleteer and chairman of the Socialist Party of the U.S. Yet poverty is his vow and his ideological passion...