Word: democratics
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...lifelong Democrat, Vance is a product of the Eastern Establishment that regards foreign policy as its special purlieu. Son of an insurance executive (who was also a Democrat and who died when young Vance was five), he spent much of his boyhood in Clarksburg, W. Va., where he became friendly with John W. Davis, the unsuccessful Democratic nominee for the presidency in 1924. "I used to browse in Mr. Davis' law library," Vance once recalled. "I remembered the smell of bound leather and those wonderfully big shelves of law books." Vance was sent to the Kent School in Connecticut...
Although I am an avid Democrat, attended the Democratic Convention and voted for Jimmy Carter, it almost broke my heart to see Betty lose...
...guys are involved." Among the main figures in the federal probes of Korean influence peddling: former Representative Richard Hanna of California, a silent partner in an import-export business run by Tongsun Park, a Washington-based Korean businessman with a yen for winning friends in high places; Louisiana Democrat Otto Passman, a longtime Park crony; and former New Jersey Congressman Cornelius Gallagher. Meanwhile, on another front, there are charges that the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA) has been carrying out both open and "black" (undercover) operations in the U.S. on a broad scale...
...Arizona Democrat Mo Udall will not be waving to crowds on Inauguration Day, and not just because he lost his bid for a presidential nomination. Spending his first full weekend this year at his suburban Washington house, Udall decided to make some overdue repairs to a faulty roof gutter. On his way aloft his metal ladder slipped, dumping the Congressman more quickly than a campaign promise. Udall broke both forearms and chipped a bone in his left wrist. "It's not been my year," lamented Mo later, both arms in casts. "All I need now is to get swine...
Among the dozen candidates in the Democratic primary, Markey was generally perceived as the second most liberal, Jack Leff, a former state secretary of elder affairs, was known as the candidate who was farthest to the left, but also was viewed as having little chance of winning in the suburban, heavily working-class district. Markey, however, was thought to have a better chance of winning, and had drawn support from several local politicians who were well respected in liberal circles. Perhaps the most prominent Markey supporters were Representative Michael J. Harrington '58, a Democrat who represents the North Shore district...