Word: mavericks
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...state party squabbles, loudly backed Christopher in the primary, saying, "I know where he stands-which is more than I can say about Ronald Reagan." Nevertheless, Reagan won with 64% of the votes -and pulled 50,000 more than Governor Brown did in a much closer Democratic race against maverick Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty...
...assortment of somewhat disorganized exhibits that seemed to affect the committee much as a red flag affects a bull. And, not least, Bobby Kennedy and Abe Ribicoff, who as Governor of Connecticut had been among the first to support Jack Kennedy's presidential bid, saw before them a maverick Democrat who supported Richard Nixon in 1960 and wrote a pamphlet called "I Cannot Take Kennedy...
...Yorty is in many ways the personification of the city he heads. He is a maverick in a land of mavericks, a scrapper who is part political opportunist and part high-minded booster. Like a majority of adult Angelenos, he comes from "back East"-anywhere east of the Sierras. He is defensive about California's virtues and suspicious of condescending Easterners. Like Los Angeles itself, which has long put up with the patronizing attitude of northern neighbor San Francisco, he seems to take pleasure in playing the underdog even when he knows that he is top dog. During...
Though Los Angeles politics are nominally nonpartisan, Sam was, in fact, the first Democrat elected mayor in more than 50 years. That should have made California Democrats happy, but it emphatically did not. Sam had already shown his maverick streak by supporting Republican Richard Nixon against Jack Kennedy in 1960 after his first choice, Lyndon Johnson, had lost to J.F.K. for the Democratic nomination. When Nixon ran for the California governorship against Pat Brown...
...point, President Johnson himself practically dictated a settlement-only to see it overwhelmingly voted down by the machinists. Then Congress tentatively got into the act; Oregon's maverick Democratic Senator Wayne Morse, who had headed a presidential panel that recommended one rejected settlement, led the way in introducing legislation that might end the strike by legal fiat. Union President Roy Siemiller, insisting that he could not engage in collective bargaining while a congressional club was being held over his head, merely used the proposed legislation as an excuse for walking away from negotiations. Last week, after...