Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political scene for the fall promises to be every man for himself as each candidate scrambles to accommodate the changing moods back home. Normally, Republicans should make huge gains in such an environment. But as House Minority Leader John Rhodes ruefully noted last week, the Democrats have thrown away their old banners and quietly stolen Republican colors...
...along, the Administration and Senate Democratic leaders were confident that they had a firm majority of votes for passage of the bill. But they were not certain they could enlist the 60 votes needed to cut off the filibuster led by Republican Senators Richard Lugar of Indiana and Orrin Hatch of Utah. Lugar argued that owners of small businesses are "overtaxed and overregulated" and had a legitimate fear of a "further extension of union organizing power and of a strengthened National Labor Relations Board." He had helped prepare 1,200 amendments that could have come up for votes...
Kraft is an old hand at local politics. Among his earliest memories as a child in Republican Noblesville, Ind., are the thumping defeats suffered by his Democratic relatives in campaigns for local of fice. After majoring in government at Dartmouth ('63) and spending two years in the Peace Corps building latrines and wells for Guatemalan villagers, Kraft became a kind of political nomad: to Washington for a time as a Peace Corps recruiter, to Mexico with the 1968 Olympics committee, to California for a bit part in Jesse Unruh's unsuccessful gubernatorial campaign, back to Indiana to manage...
After marriage in 1949, to Fred Schlafly, a wealthy corporation lawyer, she became increasingly involved in right-wing Republican politics. In addition to writing the bestselling book A Choice Not an Echo for Barry Goldwater's 1964 presidential campaign, she started her own national newsletter, the Phyllis Schlafly Report. She was a delegate to three G.O.P. conventions and served as president of the Illinois Federation of Republican Women. When she ran for the presidency of the National Federation of Republican Women in 1967, she lost in a bitter campaign against a more moderate candidate. Schlafly's own next...
...Mich., two bedfellows are making for strange politics. Robert Cusack, 38, and his wife Beverly, 35, who are both real estate agents, have been arguing at home about politics for years. Now they are both running for the same county commission seat, he as a Democrat, she as a Republican...