Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...report had been prepared by Richard Ramsden, 33, a former White House fellow and now an investment consultant on Wall Street. Ramsden spent just two days analyzing the $7 billion-a-year conglomerate, was paid $242-and delivered his report to Flanigan rather than the Justice Department. California Democrat John Tunney asked whether the fact that Ramsden's firm manages some 200,000 shares of ITT stock would affect Ramsden's objectivity. "No," replied McLaren, "it wouldn't bother me a bit." But could not a negative report by Ramsden have adversely affected the stock...
...Senator Robert Dole, chairman of the Republican National Committee, slyly offered an almost identical amendment. He again alerted Agnew to be on hand. "We had word," Dole explained later, "that Muskie had to leave, that McGovern had taken off. We thought we might just luck out." The Senate leaders, Democrat Mansfield and Pennsylvania Republican Hugh Scott, were battling hard for a less restrictive antibusing measure of their own. At the end of the roll call, the Dole amendment led, 40 to 37. Then stragglers walked dramatically into the chamber. Dole's information turned out to be wrong: both McGovern...
Even as the possibility of a major retreat on integration lessened in the Senate, a new threat arose in the House. There the Judiciary Committee, which is chaired by New York Democrat Emanuel Celler, 83, a veteran civil rights advocate, opened hearings on a constitutional amendment, proposed in no fewer than 30 versions, that would ban busing for racial purposes. Confident that the Administration was also opposed to such an amendment, Celler had planned only perfunctorv hearings, expecting the matter to die swiftly. Now, not at all sure of Nixon's eventual stand (the President last week was studying...
...elected in open caucuses at the precinct, congressional district or other regional level below that of a statewide convention. Thus instead of permitting a few state party leaders to meet secretly to select most delegates, party officials must schedule and advertise the regional meetings and permit any registered Democrat to participate. While state procedures vary, some delegates in each will still be chosen at state conventions, and a few by party bosses...
Thank You Notes. From a gas station on the highway between Daytona Beach and Jacksonville, Howell called a locally influential Democrat in Bunnell, Fla., and tried to enlist her. She demurred, but eventually consented to give Howell her list of the most important Democrats in Flagler County...