Word: elford
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Republicans are bewildered and outraged by the way the Democrats have appropriated the traditional G.O.P. issue of fiscal prudence. "There's a law against shoplifting," says Michigan Congressman Elford Cederberg. "We ought to have a law against issue-lifting." Adds Mike Thompson, head of the Florida Conservative Union: "Republicans must be sharp enough to point out that the Democrats are stealing our issue. If we let them get away with it, we have no one to blame but ourselves. The theft of an issue becomes an issue...
Glenn Davis, Wisconsin Republican, catalogued Nixon too. Steady voice, emotions under control, he thought, but always tough. When talk of resignation came up, the President hammered it home. Never, never, never. When Nixon found out that Michigan's Elford Cederberg had a daughter in the hospital, he insisted that the Republican Congressman take the floral centerpiece out to her. "I wish that we could do more," he said. Cederberg felt that the Nixonian sense of humor was sound, and so was the President's mental condition. Nixon was ready to talk about problems from the Soviet Union...
...vignettes; he observes that Louisiana's Otto Pass man is so fidgety that "he wears out a suit from the inside." Yet the congressional attitude that this book most strongly attacks, and that Don Riegle cannot abide, is the worldly advice once given him by Michigan's Elford Cederberg: "Remember, Riegle, you'll never be defeated by the speech you didn't give...