Word: republicanizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conflict may prefigure an election like that of 1948, in which a President runs against Congress. (Truman, however, attacked a Republican-led legislature.) "I don't like this talk about campaigning against Congress," a Democratic congressional leader told a top White House staffer. Replied the staffer: "The President may find that Congress is running against...
...give ex-Governor John Connally a chance to win early and big in the 1980 primary season and thus get a boost toward capturing the Republican nomination...
...reason for the Bees' opposition stemmed from the state practice of allowing Texans of one party to cross over to vote in the other's primary. But voters cannot split their ballot: they have to go all Republican or all Democrat. The Bees wanted one primary so that conservative Democrats who chose to vote for Republican Connally would not be able to vote for opponents of liberal Democrats in the state races. On the other hand, Hobby wanted two primaries so that the conservative Democrats would be free to vote for Connally in one, and for their favorites...
...demonstrations were in response to a U.S. Senate resolution deploring Iran's "summary executions" and the pronouncement by an Iranian religious judge that the Shah should be assassinated "in any country where found." The crowds in Tehran were particularly vociferous in attacking New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits, who introduced the resolution, and his wife Marion, who helped obtain the Iran Air account for a New York public relations firm...
This week two powerful members of the House Ways and Means Committee, New York Republican Barber Conable and Oklahoma Democrat Jim Jones, will submit a bill calling for a very similar 5-10 depreciation plan. They have dropped the one-year aspect because it is too difficult and costly to determine what kind of federally mandated plant should qualify; for example, regulations require that elevators be installed in 20-story buildings, but no one thinks they should be written off in one year. The kind of expense on which business would like to have relief was highlighted last week when...