Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Florida's William Cramer, 47, who in 1954 became the first Republican House member from his state since the Reconstruction, is now in a tough primary battle with George Harrold Carswell, Nixon's rejected Supreme Court nominee. The winner's Democratic opponent will be chosen in a September primary. The election is for the seat of retiring Democrat Spessard Holland...
...Nixon blitz has stirred professional envy among the opposition. Said one high-ranking Democrat: "He's done the kind of job I wish my cats [former Democratic Presidents] had done. Nixon and Agnew have played cold-blooded politics, and they have been goddamned aggressive." If it turns out to be a winning game, Nixon will have overcome severe odds. Only once since 1934 has the President's party gained Senate seats in an off-year election. That was in 1962, when Democrats benefited from a spurt of national unity after the Cuban missile crisis and added four seats...
Nixon's quid pro quo for Connally's help, the story goes, was a strong, implied promise that he would become Secretary of Defense-Nixon wanted a Democrat for the job-if the Republicans carried Texas and won. Although Texas had been regarded as leaning toward Nixon shortly before the vote, Humphrey took its 25 electoral votes, but by only 39,000 out of 3.1 million votes cast. Witcover quotes a Nixon insider as saying after the campaign that Connally could have gotten the Defense job if "he had had a few more guts," meaning...
Last week a House-Senate conference committee agreed on a crime bill for the District of Columbia with its most controversial provisions intact, and the House promptly passed it. Just as promptly, the Senate reopened a vigorous debate. One of the most vociferous opponents is a Democrat who is frequently sympathetic to Administration causes. But North Carolina's Sam J. Ervin Jr. has long been convinced that much of the measure is "as full of unconstitutional, unjust and unwise provisions as a mangy hound dog is full of fleas." Meanwhile the governing board of the American Bar Association, after...
Hays had taken Ford's bait. His own hawkishness and enmity toward Riegle overwhelmed any reluctance he may have felt as a Democrat to abet the Administration strategy. The House approved Hays' motion, 237 to 153. The House's doves, who had little hope of . winning on Cooper-Church but yearned for a floor debate on the war issue, had been outmaneuvered, outplayed and outvoted. Ford knew the rules, he knew his colleagues, and he knew how to use both to get what he wanted...