Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senator was William Proxmire, Wisconsin Democrat. He has led some lonely fights in the past, but none seemed as desperate as his campaign against the SST. The nation has already spent $800 million on the plane; last year, when Proxmire made a similar attempt to cut off the flow of money, he was defeated 58 to 22. But for the past eight months, he has been joined by a sizable citizens' army of environmentalists, including members of the Sierra Club, the National Wildlife Federation and the Wilderness Society...
...time on the phone at his parents' home in suburban Cohasset, trying to figure out how to pay off a debt of nearly $20,000-all that's left of a nine-month campaign that ended on election day leaving him 1700 votes short of becoming the first Democrat since 1912 to represent Massachusetts' 12th Congressional District...
Former Fannie Mae President Raymond Lapin, a prominent California Democrat who was ousted last year by President Nixon, concedes that the low margin requirement on the stock is "a weird arrangement." Still, Lapin maintains that Fannie Mae has become so vital to home building that "if it got into real trouble the Government would have to rush in and bail it out." Considering the increasing political importance of housing, Lapin is probably right. Compared with their chances for a quick killing, Fannie Mae stock speculators are exposed to minimal risk. At a time when Washington may be called...
Everywhere he goes-about 25 states this fall-Mr. McGovern is meeting with former supporters of Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy and any other Democrat who will listen. He is telling them he is interested in running for President and will make an announcement about it soon after the 1970 elections. He is saying Mr. Nixon can be beaten in 1972, but that the Democratic nominee can only emerge from state primary battles, and so the field is wide open; stay uncommitted for awhile, he advises potential delegates to the next convention...
Heard is highly-respected as an educator and political scientist. He has authored four books on Southern politics, and is generally regarded as a liberal Democrat...