Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into the weekend, Lance clearly picked up some support on the 17-member committee. As of last week, the committee apparently was almost evenly divided. Seven Senators leaned toward support of the Budget Director (Democrats Thomas Eagleton, Henry Jackson, John Glenn, Sam Nunn, James Sasser, and Lawton Chiles and Republican John Danforth); six seemed to oppose him (Democrat Abraham Ribicoff and Republicans Charles Percy, Jacob Javits, Charles Mathias, William Roth and H. John Heinz). Four Senators appeared undecided (Democrats Ed Muskie and John McClellan were absent from the hearing, Lee Metcalf said little and Republican Ted Stevens' sentiments were...
...wish that their side could produce equally good ones. Now it can, through the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. The Washington-based A.E.I., founded back in 1943, long languished in obscurity, but during the 1970s it has steadily gained enough intellectual weight to become a sort of Republican Brookings...
A.E.I.'s influence, ironically, is being magnified by the G.O.P.'s defeat in last year's presidential election. Out-of-office Republicans have been flocking to A.E.I. in such numbers that, echoing a joke often made about Brookings during the Nixon-Ford years, the institute could be described as almost a Republican government in exile. Unlike Brookings, where most appointments are full time, A.E.I. has only a small core of a dozen program directors and six resident scholars, and depends heavily on a large and highly prestigious group of outside consultants and experts. Paul W. McCracken, once...
...A.E.I. is no party-line outfit. Wiliam Fellner, a onetime Republican member of the Council of Economic Advisers and now an institute associate, once wrote a report contending that the Nixon Administration's initial fiscal and monetary policies were overly restrictive. This year another A.E.I. report sided with President Carter's decision to stop the Clinch River nuclear breeder-reactor project-in opposition to the views of Distinguished Fellow Ford, who wanted continued development...
Most of the reports were cautious, understated and well documented with figures and dates. There were, however, some missteps. The Washington Post's David Broder began discovering a major grass-roots revulsion toward Lance; trouble was, Broder documented his assertions by quoting a number of Republican state chairmen and pollsters, who had not taken any recent polls on the subject. The Post one day reported that Powell told a breakfast gathering of reporters that Lance would be asked to resign; other reporters in attendance recalled that Powell said the White House had decided not to ask for Lance...