Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Indiana Democrat Birch Bayh, who had led the opposition to Haynsworth but held back on Carswell in fear of leading a losing battle, was then spurred to action. Says a Bayh aide: "The boss was terribly moved by Brooke's speech...
...change many votes, the count looked so tight at week's end that there was a spate of last-minute maneuvers. A group of 205 former Supreme Court law clerks, including Dean Acheson, urged Carswell's defeat because of his "mediocrity." In a somewhat ludicrous fumble, California Democrat Alan Cranston charged that a black Government attorney had been forced to write a letter backing Carswell. But Cranston failed to check the story with the lawyer, Charles F. Wilson, who later denied...
...Advantage. Goldberg and his gambit dominated the meeting, as he had the earlier stages of the competition. The former Labor Secretary, Supreme Court Associate Justice and United Nations Ambassador was acknowledged to be the best-known and probably the strongest Democrat available to run against Republican Incumbent Nelson Rockefeller. For months he had played hard to get. As he assumed various postures of noncandidacy, others crowded in. By convention time, there was a total of seven candidates...
Erma has been called a champion of the Great Silent Majority. That upsets her. For one thing, she is a staunch Democrat. Worse, "it sounds like I'm totally uninvolved-like being a ski instructor in Berlin during World War II." She has been criticized for not championing the feminist revolution. That suits her fine. Most of the revolutionaries, she says, "are just like roller-derby dropouts, or Russian pole-vaulting types." The uncharacteristic club is quickly replaced by a tickling feather. She adds: "When I make speeches I'm always asked, 'Have you burned your...
...tentative list of speakers includes: Michael Kelly, SWP candidate for governor of Massachusetts; Carol Lipman, SMC national secretary: Ngo Viuh Dong: Engene J. McCarthy: Julian Bond. black Georgia Democrat: and Florence Lascombe of Women's Liberation...