Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Americans had no way of knowing just where Richard Nixon intended to lead them. After 26 years in politics, including four in the merciless glare of national attention that always focuses on the White House, he remained one of the most unpredictable and ineluctable men in public life. The politician who had always been off and running toward the next race had won the ultimate victory. He could stop now. But what would he do with his triumph...
...duplicity. At Cornell Saturday, Guinier re-affirmed his belief that the Faculty will judge his department fairly when they hear his story. To insure that the Faculty is informed about the department, Guinier has made a massive effort to distribute his progress report. A former New York City politician and labor organizer, Guinier is conducting his campaign to save his department in the same way say incumbent office-holder does...
...remember his document while considering the Review Committee's report (which was also mailed to the entire Faculty). Guinier hopes that his constituency around the country will read his material and urge Dean Dunlop. President Bok, or their friends on the Faculty not to restructure the department. Like any politician, Guinier has attempted to pick up endorsements for his department's program. Guinier went to the recent convention of the Association for the Study of African-American (formerly Negro) Life and History and tried t politicise the meeting, by distributing his pamphlet. He claimed Tuesday night that the Association...
McGOVERN IS partly a minister, McGovern is partly a schoolteacher, but, finally, McGovern is a politician. Perhaps his error was in not deciding which of these McGoverns should run for president. But in between his passages from Yeats and Isainh, it was of the "loyal opposition" that McGovern spoke. "So I ask all of you tonight to stand with your convictions. I ask you not to despair of the political process of this country. because that process has yielded too much valuable improvement in these past two years...
...clean, energetic and relatively inexpensive campaign ($90,000). Biden is against the war and highway "overconstruction" and favors strong ecology measures, but opposes the legalization of marijuana. He has attacked Boggs as an ineffective ward politician...