Word: dolph
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TEXAS. When Carter defeated Ford by 129,000 votes out of 4 million cast in the state, he was supported by a united Democratic Party under the leadership of Governor Dolph Briscoe. But Briscoe is now out of office and unwilling to lift a finger for Carter. Along with many other Democrats, he is angry at the President's energy policies, especially the windfall-profits tax on the oil industry. "If I get out and campaign," explains Briscoe, "I might just campaign for myself. When I campaigned for someone else four years ago, the results didn't turn...
...father Moe (John Randolph) is a proud man who has followed the immigrant path to affluence, only to suffer the humiliating descent to penury. Miller has always been an astute observer of how a man's dignity is emasculated when he loses his economic self-respect, and Ran dolph is shatteringly poignant in this role...