Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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McCloskey said he would not support Nixon in November unless his policy changed. "No politician should support all members of his party," he said. "I'll support whoever is the best...
...President's humanitarian instincts notwithstanding, his action here was the consummately cynical move of the total politician. Its immediate effect is negation of a formidable body of congressional testimony and the dedicated efforts of men such as John McClellan and Robert Kennedy. It also lends further credence to a growing suspicion that this Administration totally misreads public opinion...
...Baltimore that lasted 28 days, Congressman Dowdy, 59, stood convicted of bribery, conspiracy and perjury. The charges grew out of his dealings with Nathan Cohen, whose now-defunct construction firm had been accused of the kinds of violations that Dowdy's committee was ostensibly attacking. Dowdy, a parochial politician whose strength stems from his attention to voter complaints and requests,* thus became the 15th sitting Congressman convicted of crimes in this century. The most recent was the 1956 income-tax-evasion conviction of Massachusetts Democrat Thomas J. Lane...
With the machine against him, he does not stand much chance of winning the primary. It is the trouble he can cause that alarms the Democrats. As state's attorney, says a top Chicago politician, "Hanrahan knows where all the bodies are buried and where all the skeletons hang. He's just bullheaded enough, if pushed, to declare war on the machine." In other words, though no one would have believed it a month ago, Hanrahan is in danger of becoming a reformer...
...inaugural speech was the supreme moment in the career of a cunning and able politician who seems to inspire either unqualified adulation or fierce contempt. The scion of a wealthy landowning family and a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and Oxford University, Bhutto in recent years has become a convinced socialist who has vowed to turn his country into a "people's democracy." As Pakistan's Foreign Minister from 1963 to 1966 under Yahya's predecessor, Mohammed Ayub Khan, Bhutto was the chief architect of his country's friendly policy toward China...