Word: ronald
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...public is beginning to share that belief. A Gallup Poll last month reported that only 36% of those polled thought that too much was being spent on defense, down from 44% in September 1974. The growing worries about U.S. military strength have been skillfully exploited by Ronald Reagan, who has caustically attacked Ford's defense policies (see story page 19). For his part, Ford has adopted "peace through strength" as his campaign slogan and promised last week to take the unprecedented step of vetoing any Pentagon budget that is much lower than what he has proposed. Senators and Representatives...
...would be funny," said Johnny Carson, "if he turned out to be NBC's only hit." Carson was referring to Ronald Reagan, whose speech last week was a moderate success, as speeches...
...little frugality is clearly in order-but not the cutoff of federal matching funds to candidates, which has sent several campaigns reeling and has all of them hurting. Most desperate is the plight of Democratic Rear-Runner Fred Harris. But more serious contenders for the nominations, such as Republican Ronald Reagan and Democrat Mo Udall, who failed to win early primary tests, are being severely handicapped...
...color and frequency than any other state's: Upton Sinclair, Helen Gahagan Douglas, Goodwin Knight, William Knowland, Pierre Salinger, and of course, Richard Nixon in 1962. It was Jerry Brown's father, cheerful stumbly Pat Brown who beat Nixon for the governorship that year, only to lose to Ronald Reagan the next time around. There is no security in California politics-Pat Brown says that he "rubbed his hands in glee" at the thought of running against the "fading, aging actor." Perhaps that is why the young Brown, with an 86 per cent approval rating in California wants to cash...
...candidates who run against Washington are practicing "a disguised new form of racism." By making the Federal Government an issue, he reasoned, they "are making an attack on Government programs, on the poor, on blacks, on minorities, on the cities." Humphrey insisted that he was criticizing only Ford and Ronald Reagan, but his words could also be applied to Carter. In response, he called Humphrey's statement "a departure from rationality...