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...Southern states moved toward moderation on the race issue. Georgia replaced Lester Maddox with another Democrat, Jimmy Carter, a wealthy peanut farmer; South Carolinians chose Democratic Lieutenant Governor John West-a lawyer and, like Florida's Askew, a staunch Presbyterian-rather than Republican Representative Albert Watson, a racist with strong backing from Strom Thurmond and Spiro Agnew. Said one relieved voter: "South Carolina has moved from the Deep South to the upper South...
JACK KEMP. President Nixon can find comfort in Buffalo's new Congressman Jack Kemp. Not only is Kemp a staunch backer of the President's policies, he is a football fan too. Kemp left a $50,000-a-year job as quarterback of the Buffalo Bills to run for the House and turned out to be as successful in politics as he had been on the field.* He had help from an old friend of his days on Governor Ronald Reagan's staff, White House Adviser Robert Finch, and from Nixon's director of communications, Herb...
Some supporters of the public-interest firms immediately accused the Nixon Administration of meddling on behalf of big business. Strong criticism of the IRS came from one of the Administration's staunch backers. House Republican Leader Gerald Ford wired the White House that the proposed IRS policy change could effectively block citizen efforts to protect the environment. And North Carolina Senator Sam Ervin, a conservative Democrat, charged that the IRS denial of tax exemptions could endanger the First Amendment right to free expression. By withdrawing the exemptions for organizations seeking redress in the courts, wrote Ervin...
...lifelong defender of civil liberties, one who helped to legalize homosexuality and broaden the abortion law, Trudeau could not help being disturbed by the draconian powers of the War Measures Act. But there were other considerations. He is a French Canadian from Quebec, but he has always been a staunch federalist, with little sympathy for those who place province over union-and less for those separates who want to quit the union altogether. Moreover, the government was said to have information that the terrorists' next step would be selective assassination of political leaders. Adding to the urgency...
...idea that since assignments based on race created segregation, they can now be used to dismantle it. But the Administration's modest view of how much desegregation is necessary seemed to win some sympathy from Justice Harry Blackmun as well as Burger. Justice Hugo Black, long a staunch advocate of rapid desegregation, hinted that he was now skeptical of trying to "rearrange the whole country" to change "the whole practice and tradition of the neighborhood school...