Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When House Majority Leader Thomas ("Tip") O'Neill says that Gerald Ford is the "last Republican President," his remark can be dismissed as partisan indulgence. But Oregon's former Republican Governor Tom McCall has to be taken more seriously when he says, with gallows wit: "I thought the party was already six feet under. You should speak more respectfully of the dead." Warns House Minority Leader John Rhodes: "If the G.O.P. does not experience a significant change in political fortunes by 1978, it is likely to go the way of the Whigs...
Interpreting a poll by Patrick Caddell as rating John Connally low on integrity, Carter in an interview needlessly added that only Alabama Governor George Wallace ranked lower. The remark recalled similarly gratuitous comments that Carter had made during the primaries about Hubert Humphrey and Ted Kennedy, and a number of the Georgian's Southern supporters let him know that they were unhappy about it. Carter lost no time in telephoning Wallace in Montgomery, Ala., to apologize...
...veteran sportscasters behaved and misbehaved predictably. In boxing, Howard Cosell was so partial to the U.S. fighters that it seemed he had got his early training as a stage mother. Chris Schenkel displayed his familiar aptitude for the gauche remark. Said Schenkel when Queen Elizabeth's daughter Anne got back on her horse after a spill seen round the world: "That's a gritty little princess." A lot of time and tape was wasted on discothèques and street scenes. Pierre Salinger floundered through several such features until he abandoned Montreal's tourist haunts to report...
...through the first devaluation of the dollar in 37 years, in order to start reversing the long string of U.S. payments deficits, they almost unanimously consider Connally to be devious, arrogant and abrasive. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt is furious with him. Many other leaders still bridle at a remark attributed to Connally in 1971: "What Europe needs is a good kick...
...campaign for the presidency, Rockefeller demonstrated an insensitivity to the GOP establishment, that, while only mildly harmful then, would prove fatal to his political life four years later. He roamed around the world with little on his mind but fallout radiation (Nehru would remark later, "...a very strange man...all he wants to talk about is bomb shelters"), an issue which carried the implication that Eisenhower had been soft with the Russians. He entered the campaign an outsider and left a bad loser--in his final declaration of non-candidacy, Rockefeller avoided endorsing the only serious candidate left...