Word: gop
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Javits said that the progressives in the Republican Party have an "infinitely better chance" today than twenty years ago. He said the election of John P. Lindsay in New York and of moderate Republicans to the governor-ship in Maryland and Virginia and to the Senate GOP leadership are "encouraging signs...
This stray win last week, though, is slightly bizarre. Not only is Harrington the first Democrat from that district since 1874, but one of the most unlikely as well. In GOP territory, he refused to run as a moderate or tailor his views to appeal to the center. True, he played on war weariness, but he also made clear his dislike for moderate thinking on a broad range of issues...
...also one of the Republican Party's most loyal workers. A wryly humorous member of the "Arizona Mafia," he served as Barry Goldwater's administrative assistant and political aide until the Senator named him party chairman during the 1964 presidential campaign. Ousted from his post by the GOP's liberal elements in 1965. Burch endeared himself to Nixon by declaring that Nixon was "one of the few contenders who emerged with honor" from the 1964 Republican debacle...
...have been discouraging for Gilligan watchers, bringing three hard-fought battles and two narrow losses in unfriendly Republican territory. First came the nationally-covered Congressional race with Robert Taft, Jr., heir to the Taft political dynasty in Cincinnati. Then the loss to Saxbe, a nonentity on whom the state GOP lavished millions to defeat the man Republicans considered Ohio's Red threat...
Laird--intelligent, partisan, combative, behind-the-scenes boss of the House Republicans--probably agrees with observers who expect him to be the most powerful man in the Cabinet. Besides serving on the defense subcommittee, Laird was ranking GOP member on the House Appropriations HEW-Labor subcommittee. His strong views on urban problems, plus his intimate knowledge of legislative procedures, will probably cause him to try to influence the Administration's domestic and Congressional strategies...