Word: gop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...case, Will doubts that it will make much difference who the GOP nominates, and predicts a fairly easy Democratic victory. "This is the ultimate challenge to the Democratic party. If they can kick this one away, they have really raised it to an art form," he says, chuckling. The depleted numbers of the Republican Party and the poor health of the economy, he thinks, will make it almost impossible for any Republican to be elected President next year...
both receptions, but at the less expensive one he emphasized that the GOP was not "a rich man's party," but a "broad, national...
...Connally was a man to be envied. A skilled politician and a millionaire ten times over, he started high and rose swiftly, successively serving as Secretary of the Navy, governor of Texas (three times), and Secretary of the Treasury in the Nixon Cabinet. He appeared a contender for the GOP presidential nomination...
...Richard Nixon's enemies, Connally embodied many of the supposed peculiar vices of the Nixon White House and the Republican Party. Smoothy, shrewd, wealthy, and opportunistic, Connally was a perfect target for liberal acrimony. When he left the Democrats for the GOP in 1973, his old enemy Ralph Yarborough remarked "That's the first time in history a rat has swam toward a sinking ship." The indictment merely confirmed what Connally's enemies had long suspected, and few doubted he would be convicted. Asked why a man of Cornally's wealth would risk his career for a piddling...
...clear-cut as the public was led to believe in the Watergate scandals. Even before his indictment, Connally was a long shot for the Republican presidential nomination, and President Ford would have to withdraw for Connally to have a chance. Connally still lacks a network of supporters in the GOP and an office. Unlike his potential opponents, he has not been out preaching the Gospel to the faithful...