Word: elected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...campaigns of Democrats running for President. In its draft report, written by the Republican counsel, the staff said the investigation of Democrats was made to "rectify any misapprehensions that the work of the staff was myopic or that miscreants were found only among those endeavoring to re-elect President Nixon." But far more examples of Republican skulduggery were uncovered. Indeed, the report cited only two instances of questionable practices by Democratic Nominee George McGovern's campaign: neglecting so far to pay a total of $35,322 owed to 37 corporations for various goods and services, and transferring...
...inaccuracies" and pointed out that it had not yet been considered by the seven Senators who make up the committee. But they could scarcely dispute the staffs conclusion: "It is not the Republican Party which is in need of remedy but rather the process by which we nominate and elect our President...
...station managers, and man-in-the-street interviews convey the same message. Even papers like the New Orleans Times-Picayune and the Phoenix Gazette, which have remained relatively uncritical of the President, receive letters of outrage when they run straight news stories about Watergate developments. "We did not elect the press," Reader Betty Noble told the Philadelphia Bulletin. "We feel more strangled by the press than by our politicians." Says Bill Eames, news director of KNXT-TV in Los Angeles: "Basically, what we hear back from viewers is 'So enough already!' " Station executives all over the country report similar sentiment...
...power was gradual. A hard-core member of the antiwar movement, Soglin graduated from the university in 1966, stayed on in Madison for graduate work, law school and eventually politics. In 1968 his fellow students took advantage of their control of the city's Eighth District to elect him to the Madison city council...
...program of concentration includes courses offered by more than one department and the courses fall in different areas (as in History and Literature) the student may, for purposes of fulfilling his General Education requirements, elect as his "area of concentration" any area in which he has taken two or more full courses and counted them toward his concentration...