Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...partner of Leonard Hall, Republican national chairman during the Eisenhower Administration. At week's end Casey had not yet accepted the SEC post. The commission could use a firm hand. Moving into the void left by SEC dallying, a Senate Banking subcommittee headed by New Jersey Democrat Harrison Williams last week started a "major investigation" of the securities industry...
LAWTON CHILES, 40, Democrat, Fla., terms himself a "progressive conservative" representing "the fresh breeze blowing in the South." He accepts civil rights, champions revenue sharing, not in an archaic states' rights sense but out of conviction that the Government can win confidence only by restoring control to local levels. Calm and introspective, he brings a demonstrated concern for legislative reform...
LLOYD BENTSEN JR., 49, Democrat, Texas, is a wealthy banker, a protégé of Lyndon Johnson and John Connally, but not as conservative as he is often portrayed. He will support Mexican-American causes despite Chicano hostility to his powerful citrus-growing family. He commends Nixon's foreign policy, but wants no more Cambodias. By and large, Bentsen flunks the President domestically...
JOHN TUNNEY, 36, Democrat, Calif., is the youngest Senate member by two years. His chief concern will be the economy, given his state's high unemployment. He will probably support measures to push Nixon harder on Viet Nam withdrawals. He is a tough environmentalist, and three congressional terms have convinced him that internal reform is vital...
White Flag. Democrat Dale Bumpers, the neophyte politician who upset Orval Faubus in the primary runoff, then went on to beat Winthrop Rockefeller for Governor of Arkansas, also talked of improving education and promised reform of the state's infamous prison system. "The future I envision," Bumpers said, "must be shaped and shared by all Arkansans-old and young, black and white, rich and poor...