Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many respects, Edmund "Pat" Brown fits the comic strip caricature of a politician. Heavy-set and florid, he talks in superlatives and looks at ease on a campaign platform. Genial most of the time, he blusters and pounds his fist if someone maligns Lyndon Johnson or another Democrat. He knows California as few other people do: probably no one else could be so effusive about the redwoods or the Los Angeles freeway system; probably no one else can name the tiny settlements that dot Highway 395 as it climbs from Barstow to Bishop...
Brown sees nothing demeaning about the politician's role. After two terms as governor and one as attorney general, he is clearly proud of being a pro. His pride is undoubtedly justified; few other politicians in this country can claim to have overpowered a Senate minority leader and a former vice-president. To a man confident of his vote-getting ability and elated by triumphs over two political giants, the million-vote loss to a virtual unknown last November must have been unbearably humiliating...
...inexperience" and "extremism," were blunted by Spencer-Roberts, the actor's campaign management firm that had begun second-guessing Brown early in 1965. Under their direction, Reagan turned the issue of his inexperience, which could have been a liability, into an asset; he claimed to be a "citizen politician," which somehow implied that Brown was not a knowledgeable pro but merely a used-up, corner-cutting political hack. And although Brown's staff unearthed every right-wing statement Reagan ever made, the issue of his "extremism" became irrelevant. After all, is a candidate "extremist" if most of the electorate...
Conyers, who has been touted as the nation's most promising young Negro politician, added that such a coalition would not be a third party because "that is not feasible at this time." Conyers did, however, emphasize that the war in Vietnam "is not relevant to our national interests and raises serious moral questions...
...year old politician, in a manner akin to that of some of the more moderate members of the New Left, declared his impatience with the status quo of American politics calling for a "new and vital political force" to give the nation's disadvantaged some political leverage...