Word: midterms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...came to the midterm of his presidency, Nixon still awaited major accomplishment. His welfare reforms and other proposals were tangled in a truculent, disorganized Congress dominated by the opposition. Desegregation of public institutions in the South was statistically successful, but his racial policies, North and South, remained unsatisfactory. On his own terms, he had yet to "bring us together...
Scammon and Wattenberg's dismissal of the Southern Strategy was certainly confirmed. Any movement by the Republican Party, they warn, "toward a Southern Strategy, capitalizing on antiblack feelings, toward capturing the Wallace vote to build an emerging Republican majority," would backfire-an apt description of the Republican midterm foray into the South. Of the sixteen races for Governorship and the Senate in the Southern and Border States, the Republicans...
...politics, as in history, the past is prologue. On the morning after the midterm election, the party professionals -the men whose prime concern is how to fashion a presidential victory in 1972 rather than how to put the best public face on the instant returns-had no illusions about the outcome. An exuberant Democratic National Chairman Larry O'Brien declared: "We're back in business." Understandably reticent about being identified, an official of the Republican National Committee was bitter and angry. Said he: "I have never seen so much money, time and energy misspent in all my time...
Martin M. Shapiro, visiting professor of Government who teaches Government 124, and Henry C. Mansfield. professor of Government who teaches Government 106b. said yesterday that since their courses require only a midterm and a final. they will not give course credit until students pass the final exam...