Word: jessee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although about one-third of the big-city mayors are Republicans, criticism of the Reagan budget cuts as they affect cities was unusually bipartisan. The mayors gave a standing ovation to Rohatyn. He urged the Administration to revive the New Deal's old Reconstruction Finance Corporation to provide longterm...
He had vowed to keep talking "until the cows come home," and for five days Jesse Helms, along with a small cadre of other conservatives, did just that. The goal of the Republican Senator from North Carolina: to stall a vote on extending the 1965 Voting Rights Act. But with...
North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms at Grove City College in Grove City, Pa.: "We live in a time when the characteristic values of the West are collapsing, disintegrating, decomposing. This is hardly surprising be cause these values have fallen victims to neglect and indifference on the part of those who...
The Rev. Jesse Jackson at Clark College in Atlanta: "Our race is threatened within the country, within the law. We have the right to vote without the right of our vote to count. Today we have equal protection under the law, but we do not have equal protection within the...
Some cities planned rallies at home. One of the first was in Pasadena, Calif, where organizers of "Peace Sunday" expected up to 80,000 freeze fans to jam the Rose Bowl last weekend to hear Jane Fonda, Ed Asner, Muhammad Ali and the Rev. Jesse Jackson. Other demonstrations were planned...