Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...believer in limiting courts to the letter of the law? "I don't categorize myself," says Powell. "I think of myself basically as a lawyer with a wide spectrum of experience. My views may be liberal on one issue and conservative on another. I regard myself as an independent Democrat, but I've felt free to vote my convictions without regard to party...
...like this." Then he launched into an attack, highly unusual for a diplomat, on local U.S. officials: "Who is responsible? The politicians, the mayor, who goes to the synagogue and acts like a rabbi to obtain Jewish votes." Lindsay, he raged, was a Republican one day, a Democrat the next, "the third day he is nothing-a sycophant." Syrian Delegate George Tomeh rose to denounce "terrorism," charging that the Syrian mission had already received six bomb threats that week alone...
...insight. Indeed, he has never practiced law. He earned his law degree in 1963 by studying at night, and has yet to pass a bar examination. Even Attorney General John Mitchell demurred when Byrd's name was raised. But one account has it that Treasury Secretary John Connally, Democrat and close presidential confidant, thought that nominating Byrd would be a master stroke and urged Nixon...
...wrong man for the wrong job at the wrong time." Friday is a smiling but unprepossessing lawyer whose firm is the leading legal defender of segregation in Little Rock public schools. Admits former Arkansas Governor Winthrop Rockefeller: "There are other people I would have thought of first." Friday, a Democrat, is a friend of Attorney General Mitchell, a fellow expert on municipal and corporate bond...
...rumblings of growing political power were loud enough to attract the Democrat with the keenest sense of grass-root organization, Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley. Although Jackson, as director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's Operation Breadbasket, has been one of Daley's most outspoken critics, the mayor was on hand to help open Black Expo. Awkwardly clasping Jackson's hand in a "soul handshake," Daley forced a smile for the television cameras, then toured the exhibits. His presence testified to the political and economic clout that Black Expo had been set up to evoke...