Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...triumphs of last autumn, fulfilled in the January oath takings, did not happen without struggle. In South Carolina, Republican Albert Watson blatantly pitched his gubernatorial campaign to racial fears. He was defeated by Democrat John West, who pledged a "colorblind" administration and appointed a black to a top advisory post. West's promises were rooted in more than altruism: political analysts attribute his slim victory margin to some 110,000 black voters. The altered arithmetic of South Carolina politics has even touched that prototype of the traditional Southern claghorn, Senator Strom Thurmond. Thurmond recently hired the former director...
...appears the very model of the Southern politician: balding, rather stout, a devoted Democrat who dutifully worked his way up through party ranks. He spent twelve patient, hard-working years in the state senate and four years as lieutenant governor. In a gubernatorial campaign rife with racial overtones, West displayed a commendable combination of traditional Southern eloquence and a considered program for his state's future. His opponent, Republican Congressman Albert Watson, repeatedly played on the racist theme of unrest in South Carolina's desegregated schools. West calmly denounced such emotional exploitation and mapped out an intelligent program for solving...
...York. Voters seemed to accept the existence of "the urban crisis" and put their hopes in young liberals who spoke of taking dramatic steps to end "bossism" and solve urban problems. It is interesting that Philadelphia in 1965 elected District Attorney Arlen Specter, who described himself as a "Kennedy Democrat" running on the Republican ticket. Specter ran a Lindsay-esque anti-boss campaign while the machine sent letters to Republican office-holders accusing Specter of being an "ultra-liberal...
Thus, unexpectedly, a routine vote to pay off the contractors became a decision to try to fly the SST again. Just before it was taken, Democrat Sidney Yates...
Certainly the Vice-presidency is a settling explanation of why Connally has assumed his most recent posture, despite his repeated intention to remain a Democrat. A less settling explanation is that offered as pure conjecture by Texas political observers. They suggest Connally's acceptance of the Treasury post is part of a larger plan which stems from Connally's (and Lyndon Johnson's) desire to prevent the more liberal Muskie-Me-Govern camp of the Democratic Party from controlling the 1972 convention. The plan centers on a standout performance by Connally as Secretary of the Treasury (for instance, during...