Word: loyalists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Above all, he was a party loyalist. It was that quality, coupled with his own complete honesty and steely determination, that brought him through the ranks, first to the chairmanship of the key House Appropriations Committee, then to the Speakership. Arbitrary and cantankerous, piercing gray eyes flickering from a ruddy, chin-whiskered face, he might expectably have been hated by his colleagues. He was not. At the end of his first term as Speaker, Republicans and Democrats alike joined to give him a loving cup as a "mute token of our affection...
HOUSE MINORITY LEADER GERALD FORD, 59, a Nixon loyalist, faces the difficult task of pushing the President's legislative programs through the House in the face of Democratic voting superiority. A major clash will come early over Viet Nam; Ford's task is to hold Republicans in line behind Nixon's policy and to woo Democratic support as well. A Congressman who has represented Michigan since 1948, ex-Football Star Ford is known for his willingness to seek consensus rather than discord as well as for his feelings that Republicans must offer solutions of their own rather...
...Loyalist Who Never Joined the Team...
...Loyalist. Scheduled to go some time soon is the much respected CIA Director, Richard Helms, apparently a victim of the President's desire to have the entire national security apparatus reflect his thinking and outlook. James Schlesinger, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, has been offered the CIA post. Amid all the firings, it is difficult for anybody who says he is leaving of his own accord to be believed. Gene P. Morrell, outgoing director of the Office of Oil and Gas, demanded a retraction of a Washington Post article that said he had been ousted. He had accepted...
...role in negotiating a peace agreement on the Viet Nam War, Kissinger's counterpart from Hanoi, Le Duc Tho, has remained a mysterious and largely unrecognized figure. Kissinger, 49, the witty bon vivant and cosmopolite, seems to relish the spotlight; Tho, 62, a starchy and somewhat parochial party loyalist, lingers in the shadows, partly because of his own personality and partly as a reflection of his country's wishes. Kissinger once pointed up his own sense of humor and Tho's more doctrinaire determination by telling his opposite number, "I admire your ability to change impossible demands...