Word: democratics
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...that point, Arthur Burns, a moderate conservative who now heads the Federal Reserve, and Pat Moynihan, a Democrat who served Kennedy and Johnson, were the top two staff men on domestic affairs. Each pushed his own ideas, Cabinet members pressed for theirs, and Nixon found himself in need of a coordinator of domestic programs comparable to Henry Kissinger in foreign affairs. The President put Ehrlichman in the job and will doubtless upgrade him further on July 1, when the Domestic Affairs Council?a counterpart to the National Security Council?comes into being...
Amended Amendment. By week's end there was no substantive compromise in sight. A round of constant consultation, involving the amendment's authors−Republican John Sherman Cooper and Democrat Frank Church−Minority Leader Hugh Scott, Laird and Presidential Counsellor Bryce Harlow, ended with a modification in the amendment's preamble. The original text included the passage: "In order to avoid involvement of the U.S. in a wider war in Indochina and to expedite the withdrawal of American forces from Viet Nam . . ." The revised opening reads: "In concert with the declared objective of the President...
McCormack is a man of codes and creeds. He found all he needed in party loyalty and Catholic piety, though sometimes there were conflicts. John Kennedy's original aid-to-education bill omitted funds for parochial schools, thereby provoking one of McCormack's rare rebellions against a Democratic President. McCormack prevailed. They called him the "Archbishop" in the cloakrooms, and he resented it. Despite his close association with Southern Democrats throughout his House career, McCormack was also a strong advocate of civil rights legislation. He once denounced a Mississippi Democrat on the floor for his bigotry...
...chairman of a Special Un-American Activities Committee in the 1930s−made him a strident antiCommunist. Issues, however, concerned him less than the party line. As with other old-school legislators, his capital was discipline and personal obligation. Once while presiding over the House, he noticed a conservative Democrat lobbying several New Jersey members in the back of the chamber. McCormack left his place and marched on the group. "This is a McCormack bill," he told the Jerseyites. "Are you for McCormack or for this fellow?" He kept their votes...
...last week told him of growing public unhappiness about the April rise in unemployment to a five-year high of 4.8%. In California, a high-ranking Republican worriedly confides: "The economy is an issue. The guy who is out of a job certainly is not going to blame a Democrat." One of his Democratic opponents adds: "Politically, it is dynamite -and it is not us that it is going to blow...