Word: republicans
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...delegates who had been elected at 56 state and territorial meetings that were open to the public; 400 more had been appointed at large by an overseeing national commission. They were white, black, yellow, Hispanic and Indian?and four were Eskimo. They were rich, poor, radical, conservative, Democratic, Republican and politically noninvolved. Three Presidents' wives were guests: Rosalynn Carter, Betty Ford and Lady Bird Johnson. (Jackie Onassis turned down an invitation; Pat Nixon was ill.) One step removed from Houston, but hardly less actively involved, were the roughly 130,000 women who had participated in the long delegate-selection process...
Their chief philosopher was Phyllis Schlafly, who may run against Illinois Senator Charles Percy in the Republican primary next year. "The Equal Rights proponents," she charged, "want to reconstruct us into a gender-free society, so there's no difference between men and women. I don't think babies need two sex-neutral parents. I think they need a father and a mother...
...attorneys-55 Democrats, one Republican...
Faced with political realities, Carter backed away from a plan to have independent citizen panels nominate federal trial judges and prosecutors. One result in New Jersey and Michigan: two superb Republican U.S. attorneys who refused to resign were unceremoniously forced out of office. The choice of U.S. attorneys and district judges has long been controlled by U.S. Senators and state politics. But U.S. circuit courts usually cover several states, and appointments to them have less often been the absolute preserve of a Senator or Representative. So when Carter set up 13 panels around the country to pick appellate judges...
...entire Watergate hysteria was a natural product of the double standard applied by the press and politicians in judging Richard Nixon, Price says. If the Democrats had been caught bugging Republican National Committee Headquarters in 1964, "I don't think it particularly would have been news." In those June days following the Watergate break-in, Nixon's top aides informed him that John Mitchell--his close friend, former U.S. Attorney General and then re-election campaign director--probably had prior knowledge of the break-in plan and Nixon asked the CIA to head off the FBI's investigation...