Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Considering the lack of leadership over the past 15 years that produced recession, war and threats of impeachment, I think things look pretty good for Carter, and for the country...
...want to cut military spending in favor of social welfare and those who want the exact opposite. Serving as a referee of sorts was Giaimo, 58, whose job was to ensure that no one could force through an amendment greatly changing the overall figures worked out by the Democratic leadership...
...Speaker's lobby and the Republican cloakroom, poured into the chamber. The Democrats hastily regrouped. Speaker Tip O'Neill wandered around the floor, glowering and muttering at potential Democratic defectors. Majority Leader James Wright of Texas collared three Democrats and persuaded them to vote the leadership line. He dashed into the cloakroom, pulled another Democrat off the phone and told him, "By God, we need you." The leaders managed to switch seven votes altogether, and the Holt amendment lost...
Conservatives tried another offensive last week with an amendment proposed by Virginia's Joseph Fisher to slash 2% from the budget resolution. O'Neill, Wright and Democratic Whip John Brademas of Indiana again grabbed wavering Democrats and persuaded them to support the party's leadership. O'Neill jokingly described the arm twisting as "strictly an appeal to reason." Said Wright: "After they had already gone over the brink, we threw over a rope and pulled them back." The leaders changed a dozen votes, and the Fisher amendment was beaten...
...pulpit or during pursuit of the clearly identifiable philistines of exorbitant indulgence, such an approach to leadership may be effective. But the recent record suggests that it can be an extremely hazardous way to run a republic that has brought the vast majority of its people undreamed-of wealth, poise and awareness...