Word: groupness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Republicanism is a litmus test, then Reagan, who was a Democrat until 1962, must also be disqualified. 3) The White House tapes. When the existence of the White House tapes became public knowledge, Connally's aggressive advice to his friend Nixon was to destroy them quickly. "Call in a group of witnesses, make sure it's in the open, but burn them," he proposed. Nixon declined the advice, and lost his presidency...
Some conservatives, too, have their doubts about Connally's concept of the roles of Government and business. They view him as a corporate statist with proclivities toward Big Government, one who would enhance federal power along with business interests. When Connally met with a group of new-right leaders in a converted garage near the Capitol this summer, they grilled him on this point and also about his support of the Equal Rights Amendment and his refusal to support an antiabortion amendment. Connally answered the questions as bluntly as they were delivered, defending his positions...
Summertime, and the livin' was easy for 53 Illinois state legislators and 60 of their aides. Or at least it was for a while. In July the group junketed off to cool San Francisco for the five-day meeting of the National Conference of State Legislatures. Supposedly the whole venture was strictly business, but it turned out that no one was required to attend any of the sessions. What was more, the Illinois delegation joined more than 50 busloads of conferees for a scheduled winetasting tour of the vineyards of Napa Valley...
...whole venture angered a group of 8,000 Illinois taxpayers known as the Coalition for Political Honesty. They have asked the courts for an injunction forbidding the state to pay any of the estimated $85,000 expenses for the trip...
Lining up against the Cuban takeover bid is a broad group of mostly older nonaligned members led by Yugoslavia and including India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and others that are all determined to maintain the authentic independence of the movement. With equal fervor, they have been waging their own behind-the-scenes battle in diplomatic chanceries and ministries around the world in the name of moderation and the status...