Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Governor Rockefeller, Senators Javits, Percy and some other so-called Republicans would follow Mayor Lindsay, then we would know who was a Republican and who was a Democrat. To the Republicans, congratulations and good riddance; to the Democrats, condolences and welcome...
...only temporarily without having an inflationary effect. He went to see shrewd, conservative Wilbur Mills, whose word on economic matters is virtually law in the House. Mills agreed to promote an investment-credit bill, should one be needed. Burns also opened communications with John Connally, the Texas Democrat whom Nixon had just made Secretary of the Treasury...
...some political quarters there was open defiance: Democrat Preston Smith, John Connally's successor as Governor of Texas, announced that he had ordered state officials to proceed with scheduled 6.8% pay raises for teachers and other state government workers. There are problems with teacher contracts elsewhere. Most of them take effect at the start of the school year. Nixon took Smith's defiance calmly. "I think Governor Connally can take care of him," Nixon said. The Justice Department intends to ask for an injunction against Smith this week...
...thoroughly practical activist with a lawyer's talent for bending the System to his advantage, Connally, 54, has become one of the strong men of the Nixon Cabinet since he joined it last February. Although a Democrat and former L.BJ. man, Texan Connally is increasingly mentioned as the man who may replace Spiro Agnew on the G.O.P. ticket next year...
...Currency Committee, decided to put the President on the spot. He maneuvered to attach the Economic Stabilization Act with its wage and price controls as an amendment to a bill extending the life of the Defense Production Act, which was about to expire. The provision was approved by both Democrat-controlled houses of Congress...