Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pierre Salinger, sometime presidential press secretary and short-time California Senator, told a group of students at Pennsylvania's West Chester State College last week that New York Mayor John Lindsay would have to switch to the Democratic party within ten days if he wanted to run as a Democrat in the 1972 California presidential primary. As it turned out, Salinger was wrong: California's election laws require no such thing. But even that minor incident was enough to fuel another round of speculations about Lindsay's political future...
...signals from city hall remain confusing, which is probably just the way John Lindsay wants it. Deputy Mayor Dick Aurelio, who ran Lindsay's uphill re-election campaign in 1969, dropped a hint that his boss might want to abandon the Republicans and try for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1972. At a Queens political dinner, Aurelio said: "Those of us who believe deeply in John Lindsay have adopted the slogan: 'We'd rather switch than fight.' " A day later Tom Morgan, the mayor's press man, dutifully shot down Aurelio's trial balloon...
Respectable Business. New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits thinks Lindsay's options are open for 1972: "He could lead a fourth party,* become a Democrat or remain a Republican." Nixon might even tap him for Vice President, Javits believes. Lindsay, however, sees things more narrowly. He is not likely to settle for running second to anyone, and the chance of his winning the No. 1 Republican nomination is small: his liberalism and his not infrequent self-righteousness have alienated him from many Republican leaders. If he switches to the Democrats, he must win enough primaries to convince...
Lights Out. Louisiana's Democratic Governor John McKeithen spoke for many: "My conversations with my state's delegation lead me to believe that our chances of getting federal revenue sharing without strings attached are virtually nil." McKeithen's is no ordinary congressional delegation: it includes House Majority Leader Hale Boggs and Mills' Senate counterpart, Russell Long, chairman of the Finance Committee! Pennsylvania's Milton Shapp, also a Democrat, attacked the Nixon plan for offering neither short-term nor long-term solutions to his state's problems. Agnew in turn taxed Shapp with eroding...
Buchanan, a former editorial writer for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat who has been on President Nixon's staff since the pre-campaign of 1966, was a guest speaker at an Institute of Politics seminar yesterday afternoon. His present White House responsibilities include briefing the President before his press conferences and overseeing compilation of a daily news digest...