Word: matings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Butz, who has long suffered from galloping foot-in-the-mouth disease, had made some obscene and scatological remarks about what he genially referred to as "the coloreds." Ford promptly called Butz into the Oval Office and chewed him out, and Senator Robert Dole, the President's running mate, called the remarks "stupid" and "ill-conceived." G.O.P. Senator Edward Brooke, a black, demanded Butz's resignation. Jimmy Carter declared that Butz's crack was "disgraceful," and repeated his view that the man was not fit to sit in the Cabinet. Some White House insiders expected that Butz...
...comprehensive reform that would lower taxes for poor and middle-income people and raise them for the well-to-do. The net result would be to raise the same amount of revenue but with a different tax structure. Carter has not specified whose taxes would be raised, but Running Mate Fritz Mondale said that the basis of Carter's tax policy would be to close the loopholes that aid people with annual incomes of $50,000 or more...
GRAIN EMBARGOES. Ford ordered moratoriums on grain sales to the Soviet Union in 1974 and in 1975. In his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, he pledged, "There will be no embargoes." Yet, as Running Mate Robert Dole has conceded, embargoes on sales of food abroad might have to be considered if there were a national emergency, like a serious domestic food shortage. Carter has made essentially the same comedown on the issue...
...Democratic National Convention, Fritz Mondale rashly promised to put in more hours politicking each day than even his indefatigable running mate, Jimmy Carter. Last week, after rising before the sun, Mondale formally began his part of the Democratic campaign at Washington's National Airport, enthusiastically shaking every profferred hand-and even a mechanic's leg that was dangling from an airplane's cargo hold. Then he boarded a chartered Boeing 727 to begin a weeklong, dawn-to-midnight campaign swing that took him to 14 cities in eleven states. But at midweek, when his speeches began going...
...after the long battle to win in Kansas City. A number of basic budget decisions have not been made, though about $10 million has been allocated for media blitzes. At one point last week, two staffers were separately scheduling the campaign itinerary of Senator Robert Dole, Ford's running mate...