Word: democratics
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President Johnson, a Democrat, called the Republican Griswold in 1967 asking him to return to the U.S. Solicitor General's Office--this time as its head...
Clinton found another bit of encouragement in the re-election of Colorado Governor Roy Romer, a genuine New Democrat. When Clinton phoned to congratulate him, Romer urged the President to return to New Democrat themes. "People had expectations that he didn't deliver on," Romer told TIME in recounting the 15-minute talk. "They voted for change two years ago, and they don't see it happening." Romer also advised Clinton to "get out with the people more" and address "one of the anxieties that people have, that they're not being listened to." In typical fashion, Clinton, aides...
Tell the President I'll call him back. The bumptious Gingrich likes the sound of that, and in other ways large and small is relishing his new role at the center of things. On Friday evening Gingrich rushed from his first postelection meeting with Representative Richard Gephardt -- the Missouri Democrat and outgoing majority leader -- into his own tiny, crowded office just off the House floor. Prominent just inside the heavy doors were a dozen red roses with a thank-you card signed by the National Right to Life Committee, the nation's most powerful opponent of abortion rights. All around...
...standards and perceived moral decay of the rest of America, stormed into polling booths across the country and chucked much of the nation's governing class out the window. "We always vote for change, and we never get it," said Steve Douglas, 39, of Detroit, a house painter and Democrat who voted Republican this time...
...people who "work hard and play by the rules" were getting worked over by pols who played around with the rules. But once in office, Clinton seemed not so much a friend of the working class as a captive of the economic and cultural elites. Most disastrously for the Democrats, he failed to understand that the most powerful expression of middle-class economic anxiety is an insistence that the government lighten the burden of taxation by shrinking itself and its role in the nation's life. "I was angry that every problem identified by Washington was considered a crisis...