Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...restored $ 187 million for the second cruiser, but what Rickover wanted most of all was the fifth carrier. Although he had complained privately to Carter, he voiced no public protest. But the admiral had only begun to fight; he quickly called upon his ally of a quarter-century, Washington Democrat Scoop Jackson, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Two weeks ago, at the committee's urging, the Senate added $81.6 million to the Navy's budget for research on the carrier -enough to keep the project afloat...
...This might be Brown's most remarkable achievement so far. His confidence that America can maintain deterrence and the military balance without crash programs has quieted all but the most hawkish voices in Congress. His performance has won praise from both ends of the political spectrum. Says liberal Democrat Les Aspin of Wisconsin: "Brown seems to be doing all the right things." Says conservative Republican Barry Goldwater of Arizona: "He is doing much, much better than many of us expected...
Long John was almost afraid to ask Bentley what he thought of the show. Bentley, a liberal Democrat with the tastes of the Brattle Street chic, was bound for the Law School after a year off. (That, in itself, surprised Long John. He had begun to think only young Marxists wanted to go to law school. To burrow from within, or so they said.) Bentley was a quarterback, a winner. He had composed a magna thesis in two weeks working with very little research and a very shaky theoretical knowledge. Bentley was against nuclear power and for gun control...
...Budging. Schultze portrayed this penny-pinching future with such flair that even Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns rose to congratulate him-a solid indication that the Administration had come around to Burns' conservative viewpoint. Said one congressional Democrat afterward: "This was a watershed. It's classic trickle-down economics. This guy doesn't want to do anything." Said G.O.P. House Leader John Rhodes happily: "That sounds so Republican I'm overwhelmed...
...decisions behind him, Carter was free to focus most of his attention on the fight over energy. To improve the package's chances of passing the House despite the opposition of numerous powerful special interests, Tip O'Neill will assign it to a special committee headed by a friendly Democrat, Thomas Ashley of Ohio. Ashley in turn will farm out parts of it to seven House committees, which will be required to act within 75 or 90 days. In this way, O'Neill hopes to prevent opponents from blocking any elements of the package from reaching the House floor...