Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter have managed to shake up in four months of trying. Nixon's Cold-War rhetoric, his simplistic approach to the problems of minorities, his bloody-axe technique of dealing with essential social services, make up the bewildering philosophy of a man rather remarkably frozen solid to the 1952 Republican platform. Even more bewildering, however, is that he has been able to mask this atavistic outlook with a "new look" of feigned humility, and has successfully cast himself as the tenacious underdog making yet another comeback. It just isn't fair...
...could ever make it--and even this would depend on a particularly lunatic display by the admittedly eccentric California electorate--would be a return trip to the Senate. But despite the rumors--that he is preparing for a Senate run, or that he is awaiting the return of a Republican administration to provide him with an ambassadorship to somewhere in the Far East, perhaps China--the greatest danger is not that Nixon will return to public office. It is that he might return to plague the American heart...
...They are: Texas Democrat Lloyd Bentsen, Virginia Democrat Harry F. Byrd Jr. and Missouri Republican John C. Danforth...
...White House would now be grudgingly content to see the tax remain at its present maximum effective rate of 49%, the Steiger amendment seeks to cut the rate to no more than 25%, the level that prevailed prior to 1970. The bill was introduced in April by Wisconsin Republican William Steiger, who has attracted broad support with his argument that a lower rate would benefit everyone by stimulating the stock market and boosting capital investment, thereby creating jobs...
...should be called the Millionaires' Relief Act of 1978," a view shared by AFL-CIO President George Meany and other labor leaders. That did not especially please the six Senators present, half of whom can count their net worth in seven figures.- The most heated exchanges came when Republican Senator Bob Pack wood of Oregon (net worth: $100,000) accused both Blumenthal and Carter of "demagogu-ery." Whereupon Blumenthal, himself a stock-option millionaire from his Bendix Corp. days, retorted, "This isn't demagoguery. It's facts." He added testily: "I'm not running for office...