Word: helping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hope Britain will not follow that peculiar Americanism known as affirmative action, in order to help immigrants. Such programs exacerbate a feeling of resentment among the majority population and can only exacerbate the immigrants' inferiority complex. Sean O' Sullivan East Peckham, England...
Self-Made Millionaire Connally, who as Treasury Secretary led the fight to bail out ailing Lockheed, makes no apologies for his ardent support of milk producers, large oil companies or Big Business in general. "Business creates jobs, and business needs help," he says, ci ing the declining productivity
...Corporations can be monitored. They can be audited. But right now they're so scared of Government they don't dare stick their heads out. The idea that I would be a toady for Big Business, that I would let myself be exploited, that I would use Government to help corporations, is another of those myths. Hell, if I wanted to help myself, I'd denounce Big Business...
...months as a presidential adviser. But it was not until 1973, soon after the death of the Texas politician who first brought him to Washington, that he finally switched parties. One political confidant says Connally joined the Cabinet and later became a Republican because Nixon had promised to help him become President. Muses Connally: "Nixon said a lot of things to me. He told me he'd never make Kissinger Secretary of State. I knew what to believe and what...
Connally hopes his forceful style will help him cut across ideological lines and win support from blacks and workers who have opposed him in the past. At a building trades convention in New Jersey this summer, his rousing speech had union members cheering. Labor leaders passed the word to hold back on providing him many more such forums. He campaigned last month in black and ethnic neighborhoods of Providence, and has hired a Chicago firm to devise a strategy to lure black votes...