Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Democrat Henry Jackson (who is married to Anderson's former secretary), voted no. Proxmire smiled with surprise, lifted a closed fist in a "go, team" gesture. Anderson, who had voted for the plane before, explained that his mail had run heavily against it this time. Friends suggested that he was influenced by his wife Henrietta, who has become aroused about ecological hazards...
...galleries murmured again when Texas Democrat Lloyd Bentsen, a freshman widely viewed as a conservative, uttered his no-even though Fellow Texan John Connally had been assigned to coax a yes from him. Heads bowed over their tally sheets, Jackson and Washington's other SST proponent, Democrat Warren Magnuson, looked glum. Proxmire's fist shot up again when Cooper showed that Nixon's appeal had not influenced him; he voted against the SST. Minnesota Democrat Hubert Humphrey, who owes a huge debt to labor for its support in his presidential race, nevertheless cast his vote against...
...remedy were provided last week with the election of Walter E. Fauntroy, 37, a black Baptist minister, as the capital's first Representative in 96 years.*With one hand clenched in a Black Power salute and the other raised in a "V" peace sign, the ebullient Democrat swept 58.5% of the vote to outdistance John Nevius (25%), a white Republican attorney, and four other black candidates...
...places where the thieves thought they would do the most good-or harm, as it were, to the FBI. Among the recipients: liberal Columnist Tom Wicker of the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, South Dakota Senator George McGovern and Congressman Parren Mitchell, a black Democrat from Maryland...
...remained, in many respects, a political moderate. He is a social democrat who favors nationalizing major industries, banks and insurance companies. In foreign policy too he follows a middle course. Where West Pakistan's Zulfikar Ali Bhutto favors closer ties with China and the Soviet Union and is stridently anti-Indian, Mujib would like to trade with India and is regarded as moderately pro-Western...