Word: governors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quite a concession since one Democratic Senate candidate on whose behalf she came to Texas, Congressman Robert Krueger, has cast only a few more votes for the President's programs than has his opponent, G.O.P. Senator John Tower. But Krueger is friendlier than the Democratic candidate for Governor, John Hill, who refused to be even seen in public with Rosalynn. Earlier in the campaign, Hill's G.O.P. adversary, Drilling Contractor William Clements, had tossed a rubber chicken at him during a banquet with the warning: "I'm gonna hang the Carter Administration around Hill's neck...
Other experts gave testimony supporting the "single bullet theory," that one bullet fired by Oswald hit both Kennedy and former Texas Governor John Connally. Engineer Tom Canning of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said the two were so seated in the car that a trajectory traced from their bodies led to the sixth floor of the book depository, where investigators have established Oswald was perched with his rifle...
...outcry against spending has been particularly loud at state and local levels, where the tax revolt also is fiercest. Iowa's Republican Governor Robert Ray complained about all the mandated federal programs that force states and localities to spend money that they do not have themselves. "We hire people whether we need them or not because that is the only way we can get our share of the [federal] money. We don't really like that." Governors, said Ray, would prefer to receive revenue-sharing funds that they may use as they see fit, to reduce taxes...
...takes no particular political skill to unite a series of "hate-groups" to depose a governor who was hated with the depth that Dukakis was, and, in fact, Edward J. King has little political skill and clearly has no subtlety. Another liberal activist and sometime candidate for office refused to read King's campaign literature or even watch him on television, saying, "If I hear anymore of what he says, he'll convince me not to vote...
...wait--what about Tommy O'Neill?" (Tip O'Neill's son, cautious and pleasant but maybe not the brightest guy who ever lived?) "He has to run with Ed King--you can't vote separately for Lieutenant Governor and Governor in Massachusetts--so if Hatch wins, he'll be washed up. Old Tip won't like that. And he certainly won't want Mike Dukakis, the man who helped destroy his son's rise to the governorship, to get a Cabinet post. He won't even want to see Dukakis in Washington." "So if Carter knows what's good...