Word: loyalities
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nation under God, so I am sworn to uphold our laws with the help of God. And I have sought such guidance and searched my own conscience ... to determine the right thing for me to do with respect to my predecessor in this place, Richard Nixon. and his loyal wife and family...
...loyal opposition's most effective spokesman is independent (that is, usually conservative) councilor Alfred E. Vellucci. He is an effective politician, and is as adept at pre-meeting bargaining as he is at stump speaking. Vellucci's uncanny knowledge of Cambridge's affairs, combined with his flair for rhetoric and constant well-aimed barbs at Harvard, has turned him into the most popular councilman...
...timers are a welcome sight, since they provide most of the crowd at games. Most students find more excitement lying on the banks of the Charles on a sunny afternoon than in watching Harvard hardball. Only the big games draw decent crowds, despite the fact that coach Loyal Park has sent Harvard teams to the College World Series in three of the last four years...
...there is little reason to doubt his political and legislative acumen. For nearly a quarter of a century, he has demonstrated his skills in one of the most complex parliamentary arenas on earth, winning the respect of adversaries and allies alike even as he played the role of a loyal partisan. In a sense, he was not Richard Nixon's choice for President. He was the selection of Congress and it has to be assumed that the House and Senate knew their...
Ford was pre-eminently a loyal party workhorse and proud of it. He could be counted on to vote against most all Democratic legislation, worthy or not. He voted no on subsidized housing, aid to education, Medicare, the antipoverty program, minimum wage bills. In 1973, he was one of 70 Congressmen to vote to sustain all of Nixon's vetoes. On occasion, he has taken a more conservative stand than the White House. As a representative of an auto-manufacturing state, he voted against using any of the highway trust funds to pay for mass transit. "If Jerry...