Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the White House began counting votes as early as last summer, only 27 Senators would declare their support of the treaties, despite the fact that four Administrations, two Republican and two Democratic, had worked toward the agreements for 13 years. Under the leadership of Ronald Reagan, the conservatives launched an intensive direct-mail campaign to raise money against the treaties, and public opinion polls showed 2-to-1 opposition to ceding the canal...
...Republican National Committee did vote last fall to oppose the treaties; its opposition created a difficult problem for Senate G.O.P. members and particularly for the minority leader, Howard Baker of Tennessee, who wants a shot at his party's presidential nomination in 1980. Last month after a visit to Panama, requested by the country's ruler, General Omar Torrijos, Baker announced his pivotal sup port for a slightly modified treaty. "I told Senator Baker," said Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd, "if either you or I go against the treaties, they probably will be defeated. If both...
Although he says his only immediate aim is to rebuild the Republican Party at the local level, former Texas Gov. John B. Connally is still a careful fellow...
...liberal circles the president has been accused of sounding like a Republican, while the conservatives bemoan his misguided brand of populism. Those in the political center are not yet sure where Carter stands and probably make up the dwindling minority who still believe he is doing a good job. My own conclusion is that for anyone to have so many critics from interest groups of every possible political persuasion, he must be doing something very right...
...most upsetting thing about the Kennedy School's selection of Connally is that it evidences a willful disregard on the selection committee's part of the realities of American politics. Connally has spent the past year traveling around the country, making speeches in an attempt to revive the ailing Republican Party and, not incidentally, to establish himself as a presidential candidate in 1980. The Pollak honorarium, coming only a year after Connally's appointment as a visiting fellow of the Institute of Politics, will only serve to strengthen his ties to Harvard, and thus enhance his national stature...