Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...demonstrated a deep concern in this regard in October 1976, when you castigated "the Republican experiment in postal management." At that time you deplored a series of service cuts and observed that "all the while, the President has failed to act. He has ignored the mounting evidence that service is deteriorating...
Frankly, however, as experienced legislators, we must say that this situation has been unprecedented, even during Republican Administrations...
...last week's Republican National Committee meeting, the delegates resoundingly defeated the bid by a black woman, Dr. Gloria Toote, a supporter of Ronald Reagan, for the party's co-chairmanship. The 118-to-37 result primarily reflected incumbent Mary Crisp's first-rate performance, not racial division. Still, before the vote, one G.O.P. leader explained his preference for Crisp by noting: "We're getting Jesse Jackson tomorrow. That's enough...
Environmentalists applaud Brown's plan for its "symbolic effect." Political foes find little to cheer about. Said former Los Angeles Police Chief Edward Davis, who is seeking the Republican gubernatorial nomination: "When I was a small boy, I liked to play with toys too. But using windmills is like harnessing fleas when you have an elephant like nuclear energy available." Retorted Brown: "When Fulton invented the steamboat, people laughed. But people who have studied energy alternatives aren't laughing. They know that walnut shells actually work...
Baker is operating amidst what he concedes to be "a lot of political danger." Unless he can get a majority of Republican Senators with him, he risks attack as a traitor to his party by such G.O.P. conservatives as Strom Thurmond and Paul Laxalt. That could damage, if not destroy, any chance of his becoming the Republican candidate for President in 1980. Says Baker: "The key to the thing is to assure people we are not sacrificing the security interests of the United States...