Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...radio stations. His favorite targets: Big Government, Carter's Panama Canal treaty and Edward Kennedy's cradle-to-grave national health-insurance program, which Reagan describes as "the sperm-to-worm plan." At the same time, he preaches party unity to keep from scaring off Republican moderates. Says he: "Let's put an end to giving each other political saliva tests to establish the degree of our Republican purity." Says a close associate: "I feel certain that he would like to run again...
...write the G.O.P. alternatives to the Administration's energy-and economic-stimulus programs. He has not taken a position on the new Panama Canal treaty; if he backs it, he risks losing support from conservatives. Indeed, the treaty question is symptomatic of his more general problem. Explains a Republican Party official: "Baker has to make his bed and lie in it. He's either got to become a Reagan conservative, which on his voting record he could be, or he has to become a moderate, which his rhetoric could support...
John Connally, 60, the Democratic convert who is trying to overcome Republican stalwarts' distrust of him as a turncoat, lately by heading a drive to raise $1.5 million to buy the G.O.P. national headquarters building in Washington. Taking a page from Reagan's book, he has also formed the John Connally Citizens Forum to raise funds for Republican candidates in 1978, and for the 80 or so politicking trips he plans on their behalf. Though charming and forceful, he could be hurt by his past alliances with Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, and by his indictment-though...
...exercise of local editorial autonomy results in political schizophrenia-some papers Republican, others Democratic-which the chains all defend as wholesome diversity rather than cynical moneymaking indifference at headquarters. In the 1976 election, one of Knight-Ridder's Southern papers endorsed Gerald Ford instead of Southerner Jimmy Carter, while the Detroit Free Press in Ford's home state chose Carter. On the Gannett papers-"without any guidance at all from corporate headquarters," says Neuharth-endorsements went about 60% Ford, 40% Carter. The well-managed, publicly owned Gannett papers have been described not too unfairly by a critic...
Edward Brooke, Republican Senator from Massachusetts, on conditions at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: "When you go to the White House, the place looks physically dirty, people running around in jeans. It just doesn't look right...