Word: populists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fight between Sanford the Southern progressive and Wallace the Southern populist is being billed as the "Dixie Classic." To counter the mounting threat posed by Sanford, Wallace last week made a hasty visit to Statesville, N.C., where he figures to capitalize on a school integration controversy that has plagued the city...
Witcover thinks it would be nice if Agnew, and all Vice Presidents, did more and talked less. But talking is precisely what Agnew does. Rather than a party politician, he is a populist-a spokesman personally tuned to the frustrations, resentments and credibility gaps of Middle Americans. In their name, he flogs effete intellectuals, media stars, long-haired demonstrators. In their name, he recites the nostalgic litanies of patriotism and honest labor...
...perspective, Robert Kennedy is portrayed as a populist in company with the grand old daddy of conventional populism, Congressman Wright Patman. But then, quite different sorts of politicians have been labeled populists: Spiro Agnew, for example, and Lyndon Johnson...
...high a moral opinion of itself and too low a regard for the morals of others. Writer-Activist Jack Newfield, who wrote approvingly of the exclusive radicals of the '60s in his book A Prophetic Minority, takes an altered view in a recently published sequel, A Populist Manifesto, co-authored by Jeff Greenfield, a former Robert Kennedy aide. The Manifesto argues that reform is possible only if poor or near-poor blacks and whites are brought together on economic issues that affect both: tax reform, consumer protection, free medical care for everybody. Earlier, Senator Fred Harris had written...
...calls for a drastic overhaul of the nation's economy-a kind of bargain-basement socialism. Its chief demand is one that has struck so responsive a chord in America that even President Nixon has started formulating a program of tax reform. Nothing has more outraged Middle-Forgotten-Populist Man as much as the fact that the wealthy often escape taxes while he is forced to cough up more and more. In calling for a fairer system and a closing of loopholes, the populists are being no more than eminently sensible. They are also on target when they insist...