Word: republicans
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Devine is but one of a fluctuating group of Republican legislators to whom Carter owes his main successes in Congress. The importance of G.O.P. support is most obvious in foreign affairs. Led by Minority Leader Howard Baker, 16 Republican Senators helped provide the one-vote margin that ensured passage of the Panama Canal treaties. Republican Senators voted 26 to 11 to authorize the sale of F-15s to Saudi Arabia, whereas Democrats opposed...
Representative Sam Devine of Ohio was about to start home late one evening when the telephone rang. It was Jimmy Carter, seeking support for his veto of the public works bill. The call was a little grating to Republican Devine because the President had been making a virtual family project of unseating him in next month's elections. Carter and Rosalynn had both gone to Ohio to speak against Devine, and Miss Lillian was scheduled to campaign there too until she was diverted to attend the Pope's funeral. So Devine was noncommittal to Carter...
...misnomer to start with--drops from sight. What we get instead, is John LeBoutillier's philosophy on government, as derived from Bartlett's Book of Quotations, Harvard history courses at their most simplistic level, and his senior thesis--which had something to do with the origins of the Republican Party...
...former POW running for the Senate against George McGovern in South Dakota. The college kid raises $250,000 for the ex-POW and all of a sudden LeBoutillier is a hot prospect for both the Ford and Reagan fund-raising teams--or so he says. But he finds the Republican Party has "lost its soul." What the party and the country needs, he believes, is another Homestead Act--to return Americans to the land and their families; to recapture the spirit of 1862 without having to give 162 acres to each person...
Edward J. King, Democratic nominee for governor, denied yesterday his Republican opponent's charge that he is an extremist and that he based his campaign on a "coalition of hate groups...