Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From the start, Jarvis was a dedicated right-winger. He and his father once campaigned for separate seats in the Utah state legislature, Judge John Ransome Jarvis running as a Democrat, his son as a Republican. Howard managed his father's winning campaign as well as his own unsuccessful one. At a 1931 G.O.P. convention in Chicago, he shared a suite at a crowded hotel with a California district attorney named Earl Warren...
Clifford Case was first elected to Congress in 1944, when Democrat Bill Bradley and Republican Jeffrey Bell were babies. For 34 years the liberal New Jersey Republican defied the odds, winning election to Congress five times and to the Senate four times in a state where there are now 1.5 million Democrats and only 500,000 Republicans...
...strongly opposed Senator Joe McCarthy's Communist-hunting investigations, and once in office he regularly supported social and civil rights legislation. He refused to endorse Barry Goldwater in 1964, and he opposed Richard Nixon's first two nominees to the Supreme Court. As he rose to ranking Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, he continually upset the right wing of his party by such positions as early opposition to Viet Nam involvement and support of the Panama Canal treaties...
IOWA. Another conservative Republican proposing a slash in taxes, Roger Jepsen, 49, won a startling Landslide victory for the opportunity to take on liberal Democratic Incumbent Dick Clark, 48. Jepsen, who billed himself as "the right Republican," will have a tough time against Clark, who claims to have visited 1,100 Iowa communities during his first term. Jerry Fitzgerald, 37, Democratic leader of the state house, earned the tough job of trying to prevent Republican Bob Ray, 49, from winning a fifth term as Governor. Concedes Fitzgerald: "He's very popular...
...Equal Rights Amendment have been bareknuckle contests, with anti-ERA legislators complaining about "braless, brainless broads." In contrast, last week's debate in the state's house of representatives was a civilized affair. The battle seemed to be over; proponents thought they had the votes to win. Republican Governor James Thompson had been lobbying for support. So too had the powerful Cook County Democratic machine. Thus some 400 spectators, including the Governor's wife, who wore a pro-ERA button, were in an optimistic mood as they crowded into the gallery...