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Unusual Step. The first crunch came in June. After each chamber passed a separate bill, a House-Senate conference committee settled on $25.8 billion for procurement of equipment. Democratic Senator Edmund Muskie, chairman of the Senate's new Budget Committee, called for rejection of the measure, pointing out that it was some $900 million over the targeted figure for that category. For help, Muskie turned to Oklahoma's Henry Bellmon, the committee's ranking Republican. Though Bellmon usually backs high defense spending, he is also a fiscal conservative. The two men made a deal: Bellmon agreed...
...nomination, though he has become a strong candidate for the vice-presidential slot. In a Gallup poll released on Oct. 26, 35% of the Democrats picked Senator Edward Kennedy as their preferred candidate, followed by Wallace (14%), Senator Hubert Humphrey (13%), Senator Henry Jackson (8%) and Senator Edmund Muskie (5%). Carter is lumped in with the "all others...
...that first election, Reagan beat Incumbent Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown with nearly 57% of the 6.5 million votes cast and won a surprisingly high one-fourth of the Democratic vote. Declaring that "there are simple answers," he took office in 1967 with a promise to reduce state spending by 10%, cut welfare, curtail the growth of state government and crack down on student protesters. He turned out to be more pragmatic than his rhetoric suggested, in part because he had to compromise with a Democratic legislature. He managed to limit, but not reverse, the growth of state government; he boasts...
...Brown's years. Moreover, Reagan substantially raised state aid to schools and other local services. Unquestionably, he left California's state government on a sounder fiscal footing than he found it when he came to office. In contrast to the $194 million deficit he inherited from Edmund G. Brown Sr., Reagan bequeathed a $500 million surplus to his successor, Edmund G. Brown...
Some time after his return to the U.S., Wallace plans to announce his candidacy for the presidency. A Louis Harris survey last summer gave him 14% of the vote among Democrats and independents; Hubert Humphrey followed with 12%, and Henry Jackson and Edmund Muskie with 10% each. But the same poll showed that more Democrats and independents-39%-would vote against Wallace than against any other candidate...