Word: partisan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Democratic forerunners, though, because they were not confronted with immediate crises. Roosevelt guided a country steeped in depression. Johnson sought to reunify a nation still reeling from the assassination of John F. Kennedy less than a year earlier. But these Republicans in Miami Beach aimed only at buttressing a partisan bid for continued dominance--not just in 1972, but for years beyond. And in this effort, they resorted to the canned ballyhooing and poorly disguised appeals of a party which consciously shifts its base to achieve parties goals. August 1972 does not hold fast when contrasted with the genuineness...
...Jacob Javits. No one really knows what Nixon's view of history is, what he would like the historians to say about him. Is the real Richard Nixon the statesman who opened new worlds with his missions to Peking and Moscow, or is he the shrill and narrow partisan of the 1970 congressional campaign? There are those who argue that the President suppressed some of his more conservative convictions during his first term because they were not politically palatable. So he might be tougher, and he might also settle some old scores. Asserts one Republican: "Having prevailed and been...
Clark's trip aroused quick and partisan indignation from Republicans. Many charged that Clark had actually made broadcasts in Hanoi condemning the U.S. bombing-a charge that Clark denied. He said that he specifically refused an invitation to broadcast, but that the North Vietnamese had recorded some of his comments at press conferences and then played them over Hanoi radio. They might have done as much, he argued, with remarks he made in the U.S. Former Attorney General John Mitchell called it "outrageous conduct" nonetheless, and Secretary of State William Rogers sputtered: "It is beyond belief...
...issue swept back and forth across the partisan lines, McGovern himself continued a low-profile listening tour of the nation, this time traveling through the Midwest. He had been scheduled last week to patch up his troubles with Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley, but Daley abruptly postponed the session. He was evidently irritated by a McGovern interview in TIME last week, in which the candidate said that he had to make a "deliberate effort" to ask support from party regulars, an effort that was apt to "offend tender skins." But McGovern did collect a welcome bonus from another party...
Liberal Leaning. Most of the heat centered in Washington, home base for a sizable army of political reporters who feel they will now have to cover the coming campaign under something of a partisan cloud, their neutrality compromised in the eyes of a skeptical public. The endorsement, complained Chairman Ronald Sarro of Washington's Evening Star-Daily News Guild unit, "gives ammunition to those looking for an excuse to attack the press on any grounds." It bothered even those who, while not at all anxious to belabor the press, feel that it should not only be fair but should...