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...vote bore the marks of tough party discipline. Only eight of the Senate's 53 Republicans voted against the MX measure. The G.O.P. defections were more than offset by ten Democratic votes for the MX, including that of Minority Leader Robert Byrd, a longtime MX supporter. Said Democrat Christopher Dodd: "The negotiations in Geneva are what put this over the top. I'll bet Reagan got ten votes on that basis alone...
...York City (age 33), had done his best for Hart in the primaries and, ruefully looking back, said, "The tectonic plates of American politics are shifting. Gary Hart touched them, felt them, but he couldn't shape them. We have other men coming: Gore of Tennessee, Dodd of Connecticut, Gephardt of Missouri, Bradley in New Jersey-and Cuomo, of course...
...press, school prayer, the right to life and other constitutional issues. President Ford and advisers like retired General Brent Scowcroft argue that classified information on covert CIA activity in the mythical country of Sierra Madre must be kept secret from Congress and the public. Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut and New York Times Columnist Tom Wicker disagree. The debate is familiar, but it gains discipline and clarity from the astute questioning of Moderator Benno Schmidt, dean of the Columbia Law School. Unfortunately, the hour shows are frequently over before the surface has been more than scratched: too many celebrity...
...nontraditional Democrats cringe. "A winning party has to have a vision and a message," says Gerald Rafshoon, former media adviser to Jimmy Carter. "Mondale's message is Hubert Humphrey." The emerging neoliberal wing of the party believes that the days of Big Government are over. Says Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut: "Ronald Reagan has convinced people that the Democrats think Government is the solution. The new Democrats operate on the assumption that Government is a solution...
...cool rationalism of such an approach is well suited to its purveyors. Those who articulate it best-like Congressmen Richard Gephardt of Missouri and Timothy Wirth of Colorado and Senators Bill Bradley of New Jersey and Dodd of Connecticut-tend to share a generational outlook. They are the post-Viet Nam generation, liberal but nondogmatic...