Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Romney followed up his plea for a discussion of the issues by remarking that he could support Nixon if the other Republican Governors went that way. Then Montana's Tim Babcock, previously thought to be holding out for Ronald Reagan, announced loudly that he would support Nixon, and that half the Republican Governors would do the same. It was after that-just a few hours after the Romney press conference-that Rockefeller issued his statement of availability. Said George Hinman: "We decided that we simply had to clear up his position...
...last week: "The question is not just winning the primaries. It is how they are won." The spectacle of Nixon whomping Harold Stassen from New Hampshire to Nebraska would hardly electrify the voters. Another possible problem for Nixon is the effect of last week's events on Ronald Reagan's position. The Californian's backers believe that Rockefeller can stop Nixon-something Romney could not do-and thus revive Reagan's chances as the compromise conservative choice of the convention...
This month, the board voted 16 to 4 to reject the Reagan budget, which even conservative Regent Edwin W. Pauley described as "unlivable." In a detailed, 15-page analysis, Hitch argued that the budget provides no money at all for new programs or improvements, will curtail much-needed growth at new campuses in Santa Cruz, San Diego and Irvine. Officials at Berkeley insist that 1,600 students will have to spend at least an additional quarter on campus because required classes are overcrowded. The cuts will even reduce planned additions to university police...
Symptoms of Deterioration. The grumbling is even greater at California's 18 state colleges, which serve 190,000 students, compared with 95,000 at the university. Reagan asked for a $24 million slash in the colleges' proposed $249 million budget. Faced with an $18.5 million request for funds to lower professors' class loads and introduce various innovations, the Governor reduced the sum to a mere $459,000. Even State College Chancellor Glenn Dumke, a friend and politicalally of Reagan's, sees "symptoms of deterioration" in a rising faculty turnover (now at 10% a year...
Whether the schools will be able to get more money is doubtful. Reagan points out that he cannot raise more funds without raising taxes-and he is wholly against that. Instead, he wants the university and the colleges to in crease student fees. Mindful of the long record of disorders at Berkeley, not to mention recent demonstrations at San Francisco State and San Jose State colleges, the legislature seems to be in a mood to let the schools stay lean until they stiffen campus discipline...