Word: schweikered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opposition to Governor Reagan's choice of Senator Schweiker in any way lessened the possibility of your choosing a liberal from the Northeast as your running mate...
...This [Schweiker] incident doesn't [have that effect]. There are two basic criteria [for my choice]. Number one, the person must be qualified to be President. Number two, there has to be compatibility with my own ideological views. Schweiker doesn't quite fit the formula...
...Congressional Budget Committee's federal budget recommendations by $9 billion. Today, he is beginning to talk about "bureaucracies" and the "frustration" of dealing with them. His desk is littered with old speeches, dug out by his staff, with the conservative passages underlined. Pennsylvania's Senator Richard Schultz Schweiker, 50, has a talent for flexibility...
Since he came to Congress in 1960 from suburban Philadelphia's Main Line 13th District, Schweiker has steered a left-of-center course that has helped make him one of the state's biggest Republican votegetters. So attentive has he been to his labor constituents that the AFL-CIO'S political action group, COPE, awards Schweiker a 100% rating and made him the first Pennsylvania Republican Senator to win its endorsement for re-election (in 1974). Among other things, he voted to repeal Section 14-B of the Taft-Hartley Act, the right-to-work provision that...
...Schweiker, a founding member of the Senate's Wednesday Club of liberal and moderate Republicans, supported Medicare and federal rent subsidies. He was one of the earliest Republican doves. He voted against the Nixon Administration on the ABM and on the Supreme Court nominations of G. Harrold Carswell and Clement Haynsworth. Schweiker also voted to override every one of Nixon's 14 vetoes. For such behavior, he earned a place on Nixon's enemies list. Only on the issues of abortion, gun control and busing-all of which he opposes-has Schweiker deviated from the liberal canon...