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Jimmy Carter's Republican predecessors also sought to strengthen ties with Eastern Europe, but they did so more cautiously and selectively, and never during a period of unusual tension in U.S.-Soviet relations. Henry Kissinger carefully synchronized his Eastern European diplomacy with the Soviet connection. He was concerned that separate overtures to Eastern Europe might provoke the Kremlin into tightening its control over the region. For that reason, Richard Nixon made the first visit by a U.S. President to Warsaw on the way home from the Moscow summit in 1972, and Gerald Ford stopped in Warsaw en route...
Chicago Mayor Michael Bilandic has endorsed ERA, and Republican Governor James Thompson called for ratification in his State of the State address this year, but many Illinois politicians regard the ERA issue as a political time bomb and have been reluctant to apply their political muscle on its behalf...
Like most bureaucracies, HEW had a modest beginning. It was created in 1953 from existing agencies by a cautious Republican President, Dwight Eisenhower. In its first year of operation, HEW's budget was a mere $5.4 billion, of which $3.4 billion went for Social Security. Immediately the department became a political issue, as congressional Democrats pressured Ike to increase funding. He held off until the Soviets launched Sputnik in 1957. Then the first significant breach was made in hold-the-line spending. Fearful that the Russians might surpass the U.S. in science and technology, the President backed the National Defense...
Danny Schechter, the "news dissector" of WBCN radio, had a good reason for accepting his Nieman fellowship. The self-styled "Marxist Republican" told his fans, "I came to Harvard to lower my consciousness...
...everyone agreed, of course. Many students objected to the constitution's so-called "minority clause," which guaranteed seats in the assembly to several campus minority groups. Some groups, such as the Gay Students' Association, protested their exclusion from the minority clause, while others--such as the Harvard Republican Club--doubted that the organization could be effective without imposing some form of mandatory term-bill charge on students. Convention delegates, however, warned that they would not reconvene the convention if the constitution were defeated, and so students--faced with an all-or-nothing proposition--approved the charter by an almost...