Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Robson said Barrett's totals are alsomisleading because they do not account for thegreater spending by the Cambridge Democrat'scampaign...
...covey of Presidents who shivered through the Nixon rites owed their days of glory in varying degrees to Richard Nixon, either for his help or his failure. Ronald Reagan, a Democrat until the early 1960s, recalls how his growing disenchantment with the party inspired him to go talk with Nixon. "I'd grown up a Democrat, but I told Nixon I've got to be a Republican," Reagan said. "But Nixon asked me to campaign for him as a Democrat, and I did until right at the end. Then I switched...
Brown, meanwhile, has ceded the initiative on two of the three main issues. On crime -- like all the candidates except radical Democrat Tom Hayden -- she duly supports tougher penalties and California's new, three-strikes-you're-out law, but her failure to justify or explain her personal aversion to the death penalty, which a majority of voters want, leaves her open to charges of being soft on law and order. On immigration, she adamantly opposes Wilson's proposals to deny the children of illegal immigrants their citizenship, schooling and even emergency health care, but may have gone...
Jerry Voorhis, a popular liberal Democrat, had won five straight elections in the 12th Congressional District east of Los Angeles, but a group of local businessmen hoped to unseat him. Nixon promised them "an aggressive and vigorous campaign." He began working up to 20 hours a day, making speeches about his war experiences, denouncing the New Deal. When Pat gave birth to their first daughter Patricia (Tricia), Nixon was out campaigning. (Confident of re-election, he stayed home when Julie was born two years later...
...need a Democrat who focuses on the economy, who carries a message based on his background," Barrett said...