Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Same Perch. If nothing else, however, Nixon earned high grades at home-for the merits of his proposals and for his political skill in presenting them. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield quickly backed the plan; Maine's Democratic Senator Edmund Muskie, an eloquent critic of the war and a possible challenger to Nixon in 1972, called it "welcome and serious." Said Idaho Democrat Frank Church: "The President has joined us. He is now on the same perch with the doves. So what is there to argue about? We've won this argument. Now we have to keep withdrawal...
...belongs to an organization that does. Still another would make it a federal crime to kill a policeman, fireman or judge if the object was to attack a "symbol of the Establishment." Among the key sponsors of the anti-terrorism bills are South Carolina Republican Strom Thurmond and Mississippi Democrat James Eastland...
...eagle is the U.S. The verse is part of a protest song that is popular in the cafés and boîtes of Santiago. In the dim light of those peñas folklóricas, as they are known, Chilean students representing every shade of the leftist spectrum?from Christian Democrat to anarchic urban terrorist?gather to sing their praise of Fidel Castro's Cuba and their passionate hatred of the local oligarchy...
This admiration for the liberal Democrat, Wills points out, is not misplaced in the man who presides over the Vietnam War. Wilson, after all, sent raiding parties into Mexico, to hunt out bandits he considered morally reprehensible. Wilson was the first man to convince the American people that they were at war, not for their own self interests, but for a Cause- and led them to battle to make the world safe for democracy, in a war to end all wars. Wilson said "When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy...
...Twelfth District, Gerry Studds, Eugene McCarthy's coordinator in the New Hampshire primary, is running against conservative Republican Hastings Keith. Studds ran a strong primary campaign, winning more than his three opponents combined. He is using with considerable effectiveness in Democratic New Bedford the slogan "Send a Democrat to Congress. Send Studds" in the southern part of the district. And he is campaigning hard in the northern part of the district where his strong stand aganist the war and military spending is effective...