Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gordon is vice-president of Kidder, Peabody and Co., an investment banking firm in New York City. He also sits on Buckley's finance committee, but he denies that partisan interests prompted him to write the letters...
...remark that World War I, World War II, the Korean War and Viet Nam were all "Democrat wars" that killed 1.6 million Americans. Retorted Mondale: "I think Senator Dole has richly earned his reputation as a hatchet man tonight. Does he really mean to suggest that there was a partisan difference over our involvement... to fight Nazi Germany...
...Informant. Almost no one in Washington believed that Jerry Ford would ever pocket campaign funds. Yet neither would anyone accuse the highly respected Ruff, a Democrat, of acting rashly or for partisan purposes. A polio-paralyzed associate law professor at Georgetown University, Ruff, 37, belonged to the staff that dug into illegal corporate political contributions during Watergate and brought Richard Nixon's top aides to trial. He also successfully prosecuted United Mine Workers President W.A. (Tony) Boyle for illegal campaign contributions...
...this stage, Ford is unlikely to change his basic careful, conservative philosophy, but he has grown in office. He is less narrowly partisan than he was. Exposure to national and international problems has broadened his perspective. He no longer feels uncomfortable in the presence of such world leaders as West Germany's Helmut Schmidt and the Soviet Union's Leonid Brezhnev...
...subject-was outstanding in its detail and clarity. As House minority leader in the '60s, standing in the well of the House and speaking from hastily scribbled notes, Ford became skilled at summing up debates. Remembers one colleague: "He was never abrasive, even though he was always partisan, and he never showed the tension...