Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...March 7, 33 members of the staff of the Harvard Crimson declared their preferences for president of the United States, and every one chose a Democrat. One hears a great deal these days about biases of various sorts, including biases in the press, so it is natural to ask how biased an outlook this vote betrays...
...cross section of Washington's notables in both parties, from Senate Majority Leader Bob Byrd to Treasury Secretary James Baker to Newspaper Columnist Robert Novak. Says George Christian, press secretary in Lyndon Johnson's White House: "One of Strauss's many strengths is that although he's a good Democrat, he can also be bipartisan when the situation requires it." Perhaps Speaker Wright had something like that in mind when he offered this toast to Strauss at a recent private dinner: "It's an honor to have with us a close friend of the next President of the United States...
...Democrat Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.), who ran a poor fourth among Democrats on Tuesday, said Michigan could decide his fate...
That issue was at the top of the agenda last week, when Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan appeared on Capitol Hill to give his semiannual report on monetary policy. In a hearing before the Senate Banking Committee, Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire, the panel's chairman, opened the proceedings with the statement that he was "troubled by the extent of the political pressure being put on the Fed by the Reagan Administration in this presidential election year." When questioned about such pressure, Greenspan acknowledged that he and other Fed officials had received a letter in January from Michael Darby, the chief...
They were distinctive Senators in an exuberant and confident era 30 years ago, walking the U.S. Capitol together, debating, opposing, befriending one another for a decade in the mannered legislative rituals of the time. They were A. Willis Robertson, old-line Democrat of Virginia; Prescott S. Bush, Republican investment banker from the moneyed precincts of Connecticut; and Democrat Albert A. Gore, feisty country teacher turned lawyer out of the hills of Tennessee...