Word: schweikered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crucial question about his political future is whether his traditional supporters will accept a shift toward the center. Reagan fell into a similar trap in the 1976 campaign, when he alienated many of his followers by naming Richard Schweiker, a relatively liberal Senator, as his running mate. William Roberts, who is directing the Connally campaign in the West, professes satisfaction over the Reagan strategy. Hearing reports that a "new" Reagan is on the way, Roberts scoffs: "He could get into trouble even before he says anything...
Pennsylvania's Senator Richard Schweiker, the subcommittee's ranking Republican, joined the sharp questioning of Hendrie and at one point, disturbed by an account of confused procedures at the site, demanded, "Who's in control of a situation like this?" Concluded Kennedy: "Certainly this kind of process and this kind of procedure in terms of protection of the American people are completely unacceptable and completely inadequate...
...book, Economic and Environmental Implications of a U.S. Nuclear Moratorium, believes the alternatives to atomic power "are so crummy that we probably should in a cautious way continue this nuclear enterprise." Other experts will certainly disagree. Perhaps the most unarguable assessment is that of Pennsylvania Republican Senator Richard Schweiker: "The nuclear industry is on trial as it never has been before...
...group of men and women also called on Republican Senator Richard Schweiker of Pennsylvania. He was not in the office, so the visitors replied that they would wait until he returned. When a male aide tried to soothe them, Barbara Evans-Crawford, president of the Pittsburgh Council for Women's Rights, shot back: "Don't you dare tell me you know how I feel. You were born with rights I have been working for for ten years." Schweiker did not show up, and the group finally left...
Through the White House switchboard. Gerald Ford spoke to Republican Senators from his home in Palm Springs, Calif. At the White House dinner for Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, Carter even asked Lovelorn Columnist Ann Landers to help out. She agreed and called Pennsylvania Senator Richard Schweiker...