Word: murtha
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aides gathered at a meeting with some 20 Democratic officeholders who support the President. Among those who showed up for the after-dinner session, held in the Watergate apartment of Democratic Troubleshooter Robert Strauss: Congressmen Dante Fascell of Florida, Bill Alexander of Arkansas, Mario Biaggi of New York, John Murtha of Pennsylvania, Bill Hefner of North Carolina; Detroit Mayor Coleman Young, Georgia Governor George Busbee, New York Lieutenant Governor Mario Cuomo and California State Treasurer Jesse Unruh. The politicians urged the President to declare his candidacy at once to keep support from slipping to his rival. "Kennedy needs to know...
...missions to Indochina over the past decade, the most recent junket was a grueling, rapid plunge into the complexities of war and politics. There were mandatory visits with the heads of state, Nguyen Van Thieu in Saigon and Lon Nol in beleaguered Phnom-Penh. Congressmen William Chappell and John Murtha donned fatigues and trooped off to a Cambodian army post. After a tour of a huge refugee center set up in Phnom-Penh's unfinished Cambodiana Hotel, a shaken Millicent Fenwick, Republican Representative from New Jersey, said: "I can't believe this. I've never seen anything...
...race matched Harry M. Fox, 49, Saylor's loyal administrative assistant for all 13 of his terms, against Democrat John P. Murtha Jr., 41, a boyish-looking car-wash operator in Johnstown, three-term representative in the Pennsylvania house and lieutenant colonel in the Marine reserve. The holder of two Purple Hearts awarded during volunteer service in Viet Nam in 1966-67, Murtha becomes the first Indochina veteran to win election to Congress...
...campaigning at factory gates and mine portals, the candidates concentrated on local issues like jobs and fuel shortages. These problems were clearly uppermost in the minds of voters in the gritty, economically troubled district, which in recent years has lost population. Yet Watergate was never far from the surface. Murtha spoke of the Administration's "crisis of credibility" and adopted as his slogan, "One honest man can make a difference." Sensing that Watergate might tip the balance against his "promotion," Fox attacked the non-local press. "The national news media brought Watergate into this campaign," he complained. "They...
Aware that the race might be seen as a bellwether for November's balloting, both parties trotted out some of their big names to join the campaign-Vice President Gerald Ford for Fox, Senators Henry Jackson, Walter Mondale, Edmund Muskie and Joseph Biden for Murtha. In addition, Murtha was heavily supported by various AFL-CIO political organizations whose leaders were hoping to post a first score in George Meany's four-month-old campaign to make life increasingly more difficult for President Nixon...