Word: partisan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...begin with, Nixon turned out not to be the partisan, suspect observer of the international scene whom Kissinger had so feared. Quite the contrary-Nixon was determined to take hold of the foreign policy machine and fashion his own commitment to world order, regardless of public and Congressional opinion. In the past, policymaking powers had typically drifted around Washington between one administration and the next, from the strong State Department of Dean Acheson and John Foster Dulles to the loosely organized Kitchen Cabinets of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. As a result, decisions had been made in a chaotic...
...city is building a new police station. A contractor who gave $10,000 to the Non-Partisan Committee to Re-Elect Mayor Daley gets to do the building. There is no competitive bidding. That's machine corruption...
Today, many of the old critics of the Chicago machine are members of the Non-Partisan Committee to Re-Elect Mayor Daley. They argue that somehow, Mayor Daley manages to govern a big city, which is a lot more than flashy reformers like John Lindsay seem to be doing. They also cite the many achievements of the Daley administration and all the buildings he's erected. When he won re-election earlier this month, editorial writers all over the country sighed and spent a lot of ink marveling at his ability to rally popular support...
...goes beyond this, however, by explaining why so many suburbanites and Republicans join the Non-Partisan Daley Committee. Daley is good for business. When he was first elected, he went on a building spree downtown...
...rally was sponsored by Citizens for Alternatives Now (CAN), a bi-partisan coalition of Rhode Island labor leaders, businessmen, students and educators. Allard Lowenstein, the former New York Congressman who was one of the architects of the "dump Johnson" movement in 1968, was an advisor to the group...