Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past fortnight, Carter appeared jaunty, confident, partisan, pugnacious, smiling more than ever ?a revival of the man who had defied the odds and the experts to win the presidency. "Mr. President, it's wonderful how many friends you've discovered here in the last few days," remarked Republican Senator Clifford Case as he welcomed Carter to the federal aviation center in New Jersey. Replied Carter: "It is a good day for the world." Sounding much like a candidate once again, Carter was moved to make a grander claim at a fund-raising luncheon in Atlantic City: "I believe that...
...Massachusetts next month. Moore wants Carter to kick off the dedication ceremonies for the new John F. Kennedy School of Government building, and King is just aching to have Carter kick a little presidential influence into his campaign against State Rep. Francis W. Hatch Jr.'46, the more liberal Republican nominee for governor...
...1970s was to raise that maximum to 49% now, and as recently as a year ago the Carter Administration was preparing a proposal to tax capital gams at full ordinary-income rates, which would have meant a doubling of levies on many small and medium-size gains. Then Wisconsin Republican William Steiger, a panelist at the Time conference, introduced an amendment to peel the levy back to 25%, and to his own astonishment got a mighty bandwagon rolling. The House wrote into its tax bill a cut in maximum capital gains rates-though only...
...outcry against spending has been particularly loud at state and local levels, where the tax revolt also is fiercest. Iowa's Republican Governor Robert Ray complained about all the mandated federal programs that force states and localities to spend money that they do not have themselves. "We hire people whether we need them or not because that is the only way we can get our share of the [federal] money. We don't really like that." Governors, said Ray, would prefer to receive revenue-sharing funds that they may use as they see fit, to reduce taxes...
...Beverly Farms, the hometown of Francis W. Hatch '46, there was dancing on the bridle paths. Little more than a week before the election, a local newspaper devoted its Sunday front page to a story asking if perhaps this was the end of the line for Hatch. Denied the Republican state convention's endorsement by political neophyte Edward F. King, Hatch swallowed his anger and resentment and proceeded to run a strong campaign against the Dukakis administration, although he was given little chance of besting Dukakis in November. But because of the Democratic King's victory, and the assumption that...