Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There is something in the heart of every politician that loves a military installation," declared Texas Senator Phil Gramm about Capitol Hill's ingrained tradition of preserving obsolete forts. Thus it was truly historic last week when Congress approved a measure that could actually shut down some useless installations -- say, Fort Douglas, Utah, which was founded to guard stage-coach routes, or Fort Sheridan, Ill., which mainly protects its 18-hole golf course...
This September afternoon Sister is working the back roads of Socorro, a 17th century Spanish mission hamlet, mustering turnout for a meeting with an important politician. In the doorway of a cinder-block home, she embraces a key worker, Anastacia Ledesma, but wastes no time on niceties. "Cuantas personas? Ciento, maybe?" the nun asks in her novice Spanish, inquiring how ) many supporters the area can deliver to the meeting. "Doscientos," comes the reply. "Ah, muy, muy bien," exclaims Ceasar. "Four buses. This time we'll fill four buses...
...motor boats/Railroads, streetcars, getting votes." Those are the words to the ditty dedicated to John Francis "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald, the grandfather of John F. Kennedy and the first in the family to have "the gift" for politics almost a century ago. Honey Fitz was a talker, a charmer, a politician who made it largely on the strength of his charisma. As the first mayor of Boston whose parents were born in Ireland, and the first Roman Catholic in the U.S. House of Representatives, Fitzgerald was noted for having developed "the Irish switch"--the art of shaking hands with one person...
Edward Cyr, a North Cambridge activist who came 12th in last year's council race, also said he would probably run. He praised Sullivan as "not a shoot-from-the-hip politician...
...election, the Reagan campaign launched a $5 million dollar television advertising blitz aimed at discrediting liberals. A bloated, white-haired, red-faced politician--an obvious caricature of then-Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill--was shown trying to drive a sputtering jalopy running out of gas. In 1984, the Republicans successfully added the "tax-and-spend label" to the Democratic image, and liberals began to call themselves "neo-liberals" and "progressives...