Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President got another boost when the House refused to approve a Republican-sponsored measure to take away Carter's authority to impose import fees on foreign crude oil. For a wobbly moment, the Administration's winning streak in the House was endangered by the threatened gutting of a bill that would require court approval of any wiretapping done for national security reasons. Carter and Attorney General Griffin Bell argued that the measure was necessary to clear up ambiguities in the present law and protect civil rights. The House began rewriting the bill to give the President a free...
Carter was on the phone to Senators urging support for the compromise right up to his departure, for Camp David. "I don't call you often," he told conservative Republican Richard Lugar, "but I need your help desperately." Lugar nonetheless declined to support the bill. The President also sent a three-page letter to every Senator. But the missives brought snickers from some because they were obviously form letters-except for scribbled personal messages from Carter on each -and White House aides had lost a line at the bottom of the second page, making some of the text incomprehensible...
...installation of Pope John Paul I. He even sandwiched in an hour of phone calls between meeting Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin at Andrews Air Force Base. Energy Secretary James Schlesinger buttonholed Senators as they went in and out of the chamber. At one point, he chased Missouri Republican John Danforth up the stairs, then lost him in the maze of third-floor corridors...
Would the hearing make a difference for John Connally, draw attention to the man who feels he could be President? So many other events and coincidences had made differences during his long career. Had Connally not changed from a Democrat to a Republican, and had he stayed in Texas watching the Watergate drama and the tragedy of Richard Nixon, he might have won the Democratic nomination in 1976 and been President today. Or if Richard Nixon had only taken Connally's advice-made at least a partial confession of his involvement in the Watergate cover-up-he might have...
...Then he went back to become Governor of Texas. In his first year came Dallas, and later Richard Nixon, the man who was mesmerized by Connally. He became Secretary of the Treasury, but Nixon tantalized him with the vision of being his Vice President and finally moving into the Republican mainstream and the presidency. That is the kind of wide-screen thinking John Connally liked. Too much...