Word: mattered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is absolutely no reason for Jimmy Carter or any other presidential candidate to apologize for raising the matter of Chappaquiddick vis-a-vis Senator Kennedy...
They have done so partly because of a nostalgia for his brother's Administration, for Camelot. Says California Pollster Mervin Field: "Kennedy's popularity is an accumulated, generational perception. He is part of the American culture." No matter that John Kennedy blundered into the Bay of Pigs and first widened the war in Viet Nam and saw almost none of his main legislative proposals pass Congress. Americans have a sense, says Theodore H. White, the chronicler of Presidents, "that Jack Kennedy's Administration was the last one in which it seemed that politics could give people control of their destiny...
Lobbying in Washington may not be the most genteel profession, but in these days of federal support for education, it's become a fact of life. No longer can women's colleges like Radcliffe--or any college for that matter--sit back and watch the government's wheels slowly grind on, crushing federal aid programs in clammy bureaucratic jaws. Many colleges, including the nations' 125 womens' institutions, have grown increasingly dependent on federal funds. And when the government begins to tug on the institutional purse strings, administrators run from their Ivy towers to catch the next shuttle to Washington...
...former California governor said it will not matter to him which candidate the Democrats choose, since he is philosophically opposed to both...
Horner says she would call a meeting if a dispute arose over a "major financial or legal matter." And both Presidents agree that, because of the close working relationships among the committee's members, there's no danger that important issues will be lost in the bureaucratic shuffle...