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Through the week, the President's associates flatteringly floated a number of new names as vice-presidential possibilities, including that of such a nationally unknown Senator as New Mexico's Pete Domenici, 44. Also on new Ford lists were Ambassador to Great Britain Anne Armstrong, 48, and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Carla Hills, 42. Commerce Secretary Elliot Richardson, 56, would deflect most Watergate-related attacks by virtue of his Saturday Night Massacre heroics. Treasury Secretary William Simon, 48, would draw attention to Ford's success with the economy and is a strong manager. Besides, cracked...
...Mexico, which will hold its convention this weekend, is a good example. The President early had the support of U.S. Senator Pete Domenici and Congressman Manuel Lujan Jr. But as state senator Leo Dow, who is Reagan's state chairman, sees it: "All they seemed to do was add more names for steering committees and take the whole thing for granted." Dow took the opposite approach. He began recruiting volunteers, including some who had been inactive since Barry Gold water's 1964 campaign and some who were new to politics. One such recruit: Ernie Leger, 46, an Albuquerque...
...been a blessing to millions of Americans. But because of widespread cheating and skyrocketing costs, the system is fast becoming a national scandal. This week the Senate Subcommittee on Long-Term Medical Care is holding hearings in Washington on Medicaid fraud in clinical laboratories. Says Subcommittee Member Pete Domenici, a Republican from New Mexico: "The system is ripe for plucking. Medicaid ranks as one of the highest ripped-off federal programs...
...Pete V. Domenici, 42, an all-conference pitcher at the University of New Mexico, found the political strike zone in 1972 when he won a seat in the U.S. Senate. The son of Italian immigrants, Lawyer Domenici was elected a city commissioner in Albuquerque in 1966, city chairman a year later, and he pushed hard for Model Cities and urban-renewal programs. Though he lost a gubernatorial bid in 1970, two years later this once liberal Republican endorsed right-wing positions against gun control and abortion and won 54% of the vote in his Senate race. In his rookie term...
Nixon took New Mexico's four electoral votes with 64 per cent of the popular total and his coattails helped Peter Domenici become the first Republican Senator from the state since 1928. Domenici beat Democrat Jack Daniels, known locally at the "Broderick Crawford of New Mexico politics...