Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...money troubles. There is also the danger of the candidates exhausting themselves campaigning and cutting one another up in public to Nixon's ultimate profit. Such harsh realities undoubtedly aided the group in reaching an agreement to limit TV and radio spending to 5? per 1968 registered voter (Democrat and Republican) in each of the primary states, or a total of $2.8 million per candidate for all the 20-plus primaries looming ahead. How many of the Democratic hopefuls can raise that much remains to be seen...
...candidates. Senator Birch Bayh is counting on a good showing in Florida, where he has been laying groundwork for months, and in California. Coupled with a native-son sweep in Indiana, wins in Florida and California might get him a chance at the nomination. George McGovern, the only announced Democrat, must cut deeply into Muskie's New Hampshire vote if he is to stay alive as a candidate; after that, he hopes for a win in Wisconsin to go along with a home-state victory in South Dakota...
After being defeated in an earlier try for the governorship of Pennsylvania, Democrat Milton Shapp found a winning issue last fall. He charged the Republicans with being big spenders who had brought the state to the verge of bankruptcy. Elected in a landslide that gave the Democrats control of both houses of the legislature for the first time in 32 years, Shapp set out to put the state in financial order-only to find himself in a worse fix than the Republicans. By last week, Pennsylvania had edged even closer to bankruptcy. Shapp's administration was spending...
...answer was not unexpected; more surprising was the vehemence with which Nixon threw away his options. He designated Treasury Secretary John Connally, a nominal Democrat, as "chief economic spokesman," a new title in the Administration. The tall, smooth Texan promptly became Nixon's no man. In the most unyielding language, Connally announced that the President would not set up a wage-price review board, would not declare wage-price controls, would not ask Congress for a stimulative tax cut and would not countenance any further increase in federal spending unless it was "directly related to reducing unemployment...
Nixon's chief spokesman in the floor fight was a most unusual ally: Wilbur Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, an old-line Democrat and an inveterate Nixon critic. Mills decided nearly two years ago that Nixon would make telling points against the Democrats in the 1970 elections and the 1972 presidential campaign if the Democrats tried to block this striking new program for the poor, particularly since such blockage would be tantamount to approval of the present welfare structure. Mills pushed the bill through the House once, but it failed enactment because of the chaos...