Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fiske denied that the action of the Traffic Commission was politically motivated. "Mayor White is a Democrat and would be delighted to see Agnew, the second most important Republican in the country, embarrassed," he said...
...York Democrat, who initiated the Dump Johnson movement in 1968 but was defeated last November in his bid for a second House term when his Long Island district was gerrymandered, reminded an audience of under 60 in Lowell Lecture Hall that the 1972 struggle will be easier than that of 1968 for two reasons...
...Indochina, however, has been sought by the President's critics on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Their frustration at not being able to get it erupted in a new argument over the Administration's claim to an executive privilege against some kinds of congressional inquiry. Missouri Democrat Stuart Symington raised the issue in a personal way by complaining in a Senate speech that National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger has emerged "as clearly the most powerful man in the Nixon Administration next to the President" but "will not appear before the duly constituted committees of the Congress." He also...
Nixon's defense of Rogers missed the point. It was Kissinger, not Rogers, whom the Senators wished to quiz-and not because they denigrate either man. The issue, Democrat William Fulbright, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, explained in another Senate speech, was that "the people's representatives in Congress are denied direct access not only to the President himself but to the individual who is the principal architect of our war policy in Indochina." The clash over executive privilege is a recurring and complex one. The Senate has a right to review U.S. foreign policy...
THREE weeks after the attack on the Ho Chi Minh Trail had begun. South Viet Nam's rugged Quang Tri province, the chief staging area, became a major stop on the VIP circuit. Texas Democrat Lloyd Bentsen, new to the Senate Armed Services Committee, flew in by executive jet, only to be waved away from Khe Sanh when Communist mortar fire suddenly thudded in. South Viet Nam's Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky, resplendent in his standard field getup-black flight suit, purple scarf and revolver-arrived to visit South Vietnamese marines. "I tried to visit Laos myself...