Word: howards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week in Asia, however, Carter was reminded of how angrily his leadership is being questioned at home, largely because of the energy crisis. Polls published while he was in Tokyo show him not only trailing Senator Edward Kennedy in popularity but losing to potential Republican challengers Ronald Reagan and Howard Baker as well. In fact, the President's overall approval rating?29%?is barely above the levels of Harry Truman and Richard Nixon at their lowest points...
Twice he had told Jimmy Carter that he would not support the SALT II treaty unless it was amended. But the Carter Administration still thought that he would eventually change his mind. Last week, however, Senate Republican Leader Howard Baker Jr. seemed to slam the door on that possibility. At a packed Capitol Hill press conference, he announced bluntly: "I shall oppose the SALT treaty." It was a serious blow to the treaty's chances of being approved by the Senate...
Another potential victim of the tapes is Tennessee's Howard Baker, who played a leading role on the Senate Watergate Committee while managing to maintain close ties with the White House. Insists Ron McMahan, the Senator's press secretary: "Baker knows that his conversations with Nixon will be on the tapes, but he has no problem if they are released...
...19th century composer John Howard Payne, it was Home Sweet Home. In today's America it is all too often an arena for shoving, pushing, punching, kicking, screaming, torture and death. Says Sociologist Murray A. Straus: "For any typical American citizen, rich or poor, the most dangerous place is home-from slaps to murder." Straus reckons that as many as 8 million Americans are assaulted each year by members of their own families...
There seems little chance that the Senate will approve the treaty without insisting that it be amended. Said Senate Republican Leader Howard Baker Jr.: "The Senate will give its advice before it gives its consent. The Senate is not going to accept a pig in a poke." Both Carter and Brezhnev have warned the Senate against insisting on changes. Said the Soviet leader in Vienna: "Any attempt to rock this elaborate structure, to substitute any of its elements, to pull it closer to one's self, would be an unprofitable exercise. The entire structure might then collapse." Scoffed...