Word: democratics
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...term in the White House, one of the key states he needs in November 1972 is Ohio; no Republican President has ever been elected without carrying it. Hardly a secret to the G.O.P.. that axiom of American politics weighs most painfully at present in the mind of a Democrat. Ohio's red-haired Governor, John J. Gilligan. He faces a tough dilemma. Before he can hope to mount an effective campaign against a Republican presidential drive in his own state, he must make a crucial decision about which-if any-of the Democratic presidential hopefuls he will actively...
William Rehnquist of Arizona, a Goldwaterite who is an Assistant Attorney General under John Mitchell, was not so well received. His opponents, led by Indiana Democrat Birch Bayh, seized upon a memo written by Rehnquist in 1952, when he was a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, as evidence that Rehnquist was against civil rights. In the memo, he had argued that the separate but equal doctrine laid down by the Supreme Court in 1896 was "right and should be reaffirmed." When Rehnquist countered that the view expressed was that of Justice Jackson, a civil libertarian, Bayh...
...whom does the signal serve? The endorsement was immensely important to Front Runner Muskie, who can now lay claim to the support of the many party sheiks who had been waiting to see what Kennedy's plans were. As one highly placed Democrat sees it, however, the chief beneficiary of Tunney's endorsement will not be Ed but Ted. In this view, Kennedy has coldly concluded that Nixon cannot be beaten in 1972. Therefore he chooses to leave the field to Muskie, who now has the nomination all but locked...
...apparent leader before the balloting began last week was Amintore Fanfani, 63, four times Premier and most recently president of the Senate. A short (he claims to be 5 ft. 6 in.), brusque, brash former economics professor, he is the candidate of the Christian Democrats, the largest party in the governing center-left coalition. Should he falter, former Premier Aldo Moro is more than willing to replace him. Moro, also a Christian Democrat, has visibly moved from the center toward the left of late, even as Fanfani was moving from left to center. Fanfani's other chief rival...
Because Kefauver represented Tennessee and shared the predominating views of that state on segregation, he was not a Progressive Democrat on civil rights legislation; he spent his greatest energy defending the Tennessee Valley Authority from the clutches of private interest, much as other Southern senators would champion tobacco, cotton or whiskey. He lost many of his important legislative battles in Washington, and was even less successful on the national political scene. In 1952 and 1956 he campaigned for the Democratic nomination for President; his only reward was the vice-presidential spot in 1956, from which he and Adlai Stevenson slid...