Word: derwinski
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...domestic front, Democratic opponents would by now have stripped the civil service reform bill of the Administration's key provisions were it not for the support of Republican Representatives Ed Derwinski and Tom Corcoran of Illinois and James Leach of Iowa. In the House Ways and Means Committee, Barber Conable of New York and other Republicans have defended the Administration's free-trade policies against the Democrats' more protectionist attitudes...
...Washington as well as in many African capitals Carter's policy toward the continent, and particularly toward the treacherous problems of southern Africa, has come under attack. "Our foreign policy as it applies to Africa is in total shambles," says Illinois Congressman Edward Derwinski of the House International Relations Committee. "As usual, it's too little too late." In a trenchant editorial on the President's Lagos speech, the Washington Post accused Carter of succumbing to Nigeria's "uncomplicated fervor" for a guerrilla victory by the Patriotic Front forces, headed by Joshua Nkomo of Z.A.P.U. (Zimbabwe...
...twister, he was a patter and a hugger. "It's the damndest thing," mused Louisiana's Democratic Congressman Joe D. Waggonner Jr. "Jerry just puts an arm around a colleague or looks him in the eye, says, 'I don't need your vote,' and gets it." Adds Edward F. Derwinski, an Illinois Republican, "Jerry is an open tactician. He doesn't look for clever ways to sneak in behind you. He does the obvious, which is usually common sense...
Fourteen months ago, Derwinski's blue-and white-collar district just southwest of Chicago went 71% for Nixon. Now the President is an embarrassment, a subject to be avoided. Watergate is also little discussed in places like Hickory Hills and Westchester, but the scandal has left its mark; voters are deeply cynical about what is going on in Washington. "People want to believe the worst about their leaders," said Derwinski. "They're looking for evil. They have chips on their shoulders." Indeed, the first question that Derwinski got at a Kiwanis meeting in Hillside was: "Is the energy...
Late one afternoon last week Derwinski was phoned by Republican National Committee Chairman George Bush, who wanted to know how the President was doing. Badly, reported Derwinski, and his advice went straight to the energy question. "Rationing must be avoided at all costs," he told Bush. Otherwise, Derwinski warned, the President would never achieve a majority of public support, even if he managed to survive impeachment proceedings...