Word: politicians
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Neither did Robert Kennedy ever step completely out of his previous role as an infighting politician. His electoral foray into New York in 1964 was a stage-managed grab for power, and even in his last campaign he never dispersed the tough-minded, practical New Frontiersmen who had always clustered around him, cautioning against excess, staging touch football games with poor kids for the television cameras and the campaign documentaries...
...last week brought the most dramatic evidence yet of black political progress. Los Angeles, the nation's third largest city, elected its first black mayor, although the Negro population is a distinct (18%) minority. City Councilman Thomas Bradley won because enough whites regarded him not as a black politician but simply as a man deserving of their vote...
Bradley won not only 92% of the black vote and 51% of the Mexican-American vote (which in the past had gone to Yorty) but also half of the white vote. "I have never run as a black," he said after his victory. "I am a politician who happens to be a black. This will be the new style. We [blacks] will achieve political influence because of our stand on all the issues...
Frances Tarlton ("Sissy") Farenthold, LL.D., feminist and politician. Her willingness to take the fight to the people has renewed their faith in our system. Octavio Paz, L.H.D., Mexican poet...
...Warren Court, says Simon, "wanted to teach the nation its deepest purposes and meanings. It is that special role that the Burger Court neither serves nor covets." Paradoxically perhaps, Warren, the California Governor and lifelong politician, brought to the bench an expansive and unremitting belief in the strength and power of the law; Warren Burger, the longtime lawyer and judge, came to the court believing that true strength and power reside in the political process. Change in the U.S., he has said, "is a legislative and policy process. And there is a very limited role for courts in this respect...