Word: populists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Salvador Allende Gossens, who recently completed his first 100 days as the only Marxist chief of state ever elected by free vote. So far, he has realized neither the businessman's worst fears nor the handyman's impossible dream. He has been more reformist than revolutionary, more populist than Marxist. "He is a better President," concedes an opposition politician, "than he was a candidate." Still, Allende has moved more quickly and forcefully than expected by U.S. officials to direct Chile toward full socialization, and his Communist allies have begun to speak of "making the revolution irreversible." He admits...
DiCara will run as an urban-populist. His issues will be housing, public transportation, and the restructuring of city government: DiCara will try to contract himself with present members of the Council, whom he considers unresponsive. "The City Council is an office a man should aspire to, not retire to," DiCara loves...
...more surprising questions at the Schwartz interview came from Donald Steele, a graduate student representative. Schwartz is doing his doctoral work on the American Populist movement. "I want to know," Steele asked, "is your interest in Populism related to your interest in radical movements...
Albert considers himself a populist in the tradition of Rayburn; the districts the two men represented adjoin on the Texas-Oklahoma border, and they were fast friends. Rayburn helped pick Albert as Democratic whip in 1955. To Rayburn admirers, the two small men (Rayburn was l½ in. taller) even seemed to operate alike. Said one as he watched Albert in 1962: "Look at the little fellow! Ain't that Mr. Sam?" Albert has stumbled only once in his steady climb since then; he appeared vacillating and uncertain as he chaired the chaotic 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. He had suffered...
...President, prodded by Chief Economist Paul McCracken and Budget Boss George Shultz, has made a decision to go for speedy, job-creating growth. It remains to be seen whether John Connally, Nixon's surprise choice for Secretary of the Treasury, will alter the strategy. Though he has Texas populist roots, Connally is considered to be an economic conservative...