Word: mathiases
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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One moderate who fled to the waiting embrace of the Democrats in 1973 is Michigan Congressman Donald Riegle. He felt that his faction of the party no longer had any influence. "We were like the tail of the dog; we couldn't wag the dog." A Republican pondering whether to...
Among moderate Republicans, few are more deeply rooted in the party's past -or more anxious about its future-than Maryland Senator Charles McCurdy Mathias. His great-grandfather, Charles Trail, ran for state senator with Abe Lincoln in 1864. His grandfather, Maryland State Senator John Mathias, campaigned beside Teddy...
At the dinner table of their white brick home in Chevy Chase, Md., Charles Mathias and his wife Ann were talking about an unhappy afternoon that he had just spent in the Senate. The President had moved to weaken the food stamp program, which Mathias strongly supported. His wife, who...
...Mathiases had discussed that uncomfortable subject many times in the past year. She descends from a long line of card-carrying Republicans-her father, Robert Bradford, is a former Governor of Massachusetts-but Ann Mathias has accepted the upset of leaving the party. Her husband is finding the decision more difficult...
Without the moderates, Mathias believes, the Republicans will become more and more a splinter party. Senate colleagues like New York's Jacob Javits, New Jersey's Clifford Case, Illinois' Charles Percy and Massachusetts' Ed Brooke-men who win elections in large, industrial, Democratic states -help to...