Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...salute Senator Abraham Ribicoff for his courageous stand in voting for the warplane package [May 29] against a pressure-packed Jewish lobby...
...Carter. He played a crucial role in getting the Panama Canal treaties passed, despite threats from the right wing of his own party to torpedo his presidential ambitions. He persuaded Senate Republicans to support Carter's proposal on plane sales to the Middle East, and outraged the powerful Jewish lobby. Last week, smarting from the blows he received over the plane deal, Howard dropped in at the White House for a chat with Jimmy. "Mr. President," he said with a grin, "I'm tired of doing the right thing...
GARY HART. The Colorado Democrat too was unable to make up his mind until just an hour before the roll was called. Prominent Jewish leaders "from Los Angeles to Boston" whom he met while managing George McGovern's 1972 presidential campaign had besieged him. He received a telephoned plea from Vance. Yet he had been "very impressed" by the pleas of the Saudi princes. While Hart was on his way to the Senate floor, New Republic Editor Marty Peretz made an emotional final-hour anti-sales pitch to him. Vice President Walter Mondale took him aside for a counterplea...
...second wife, grew up in the warm comfort of her family's spacious red brick colonial home in Forest Hills, Queens, a horseshoe's toss from both Aqueduct and Belmont. She was educated by nuns, at her Catholic mother's request and with her Jewish father's consent, and sent off to Virginia's very white-glove Marymount College. She inherited her father's fierce passion for horses, even spending college weekends trackside at Laurel, Bowie or Pimlico while classmates went off to football games. Hirsch did his best to insulate his daughter from...
...Orthodox Jewish immigrant umbrella maker, Freeman grew up in Chattanooga and still remembers when the city was ravaged by floods before TVA dams tamed the Tennessee River. Says he: "If you were a member of the generation that saw the light bulb replace a kerosene lantern and benefited from the blessing of electric pumps that drew the water from the well, so you didn't have to carry water from the well, then you really appreciated what the TVA had accomplished." Recalls Freeman: "TVA and religion were the two biggest things in my life...