Word: reubin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prevailing joke round town is: Wouldn't you really rather have a Buick? Miami Beach officials were reluctant to offer the Republicans a bid, possibly because they thought they were simply being used as a lever to reduce Graham's price. Florida's perturbed Governor Reubin Askew met with Miami Beach city leaders last week to iron out the difficulties...
Belatedly, his aides became aware that the approach was not working. They decided that Muskie must get more specific and tough. Muskie thereupon stoutly backed Florida Governor Reubin Askew's stand against the antibusing forces, opposed the space shuttle-and lost votes heavily on both issues. He bluntly attacked Wallace, calling him "a worn-out demagogue," charging that a vote for Wallace was "a vote for fear." The "message" that Floridians must send out, he argued, ought not to be "that this is where the New South died; that the party of John F. Kennedy speaks with the voice...
...emerging as an unexpectedly dangerous hazard on the road that Democratic contenders have to travel to reach their party's nomination for President. The number of politicians still willing to speak out unequivocally against all antibusing moves was dwindling, but at least three persisted: Florida Governor Reubin Askew. New York Mayor John Lindsay and Connecticut Senator Abraham Ribicoff. Protested Ribicoff: "If politicians continue to fan blind passions, we are lost. Busing is not the issue at all. The basic issue is whether America is going to have apartheid. I don't think we can exist on that basis...
Yesterday, he backed Florida's Republican Governor Reubin Askew in the latter's contentions that opposition to busing is camoflagued opposition to integration...
...political gain." New York's Mayor John Lindsay further endangered his remote presidential chances by telling Florida legislators: "I am for busing because it is often the only way to integrate our schools -and because the alternative, perpetual racial segregation, is far worse." Florida's bold Governor Reubin Askew freely conceded that 90% of his state's voters may favor a state antibusing referendum on the March 14 ballot, but that he would oppose it "as forcefully as I know how. It's time we told the rest of the nation that we aren...