Word: republicans
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...these problems were aggravated by the Lance affair. Republicans insisted that it had done lasting damage to Carter. Outlining the main themes of the G.O.P. attack on him in 1978 and 1980, National Chairman Bill Brock declared: "There doesn't seem to be a game plan or a theme. Foreign policy lacks coordination. Domestic policy has yet to have a pattern. His proposals are rhetoric, not specifics." House Republican Leader John Rhodes complained that "somehow this Administration has, in a very short time, appeared to lose its moral nerve." Senate G.O.P. Leader Howard Baker was preparing what he called...
Among politicians, former Democratic Governor Robert Docking of Kansas was sympathetic to Lance. "He defended himself very well and deserves to be heard out. We should not be too quick to condemn people in this country." Republican Richard Aurelio, former deputy mayor of New York City, called the hearings "one of the most extraordinary things I've ever seen in public affairs. The Senators have come off looking foolish. Lance's performance has been remarkable...
Unusually solemn, Lance focused his anger on two of the Senators sitting in judgment in front of him: Abraham Ribicoff. Democratic chairman of the committee, and. more scathingly, Charles Percy, the ranking Republican. As reported in a Labor Day weekend story in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Lance noted, the Senators had sent three committee investigators to quiz Billy Lee Campbell, a former vice president of the Calhoun First National Bank, who was serving an eight-year prison term for embezzling nearly $1 million from the bank, mostly during the time that Lance was its president. Campbell had claimed that Lance...
...Delaware Republican William Roth Jr., for one, was not satisfied with Lance's explanation that he had repaid the bank. Roth compared this reasoning to the rationale "of a person who goes through a red light and says nobody was hurt so my going through was all right." Lance could not satisfactorily explain to Ribicoff why he had written a letter to federal bank examiners in 1973 saying his overdraft problem would be corrected and why he had failed to heed the criticism of bank examiners who found that the overdraft situation was "abusive" and "the age and size...
...loan of more than $5,000 from his own bank for his personal expenses. A federal examiner in 1971 and Comptroller Heimann this year both reported that Lance had been technically in violation of this civil statute, since an overdraft is, in effect, a loan. Maryland Republican Charles Mathias Jr., mixing metaphors, termed the practice of letting Lance's campaign committee "write rubber checks that wouldn't bounce, like the goose that lays the golden...