Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...begins next week when the 292-member House Democratic caucus meets to choose by secret ballot a new Speaker and majority leader. The current majority leader, Thomas ("Tip") O'Neill, 63, a big, tough-minded Boston liberal who is committed to Carter, is unopposed in his bid to succeed retiring Speaker Carl Albert of Oklahoma. By contrast, four candidates are in the race for the majority leader's position that O'Neill will be vacating...
...outcome of the various contests, he has not taken sides-and will not, unless he wants to alienate the entire Congress. Determined to be a strong President, he cannot be cheered by the prospect of strong leadership in a rival power center. But if he wants to succeed in such goals as reforming the tax structure and revising the welfare system, nothing less than strong congressional leaders will...
...Democrats, Carter said: "If I fail to meet you more than halfway, I can't be a successful President, and if you don't come halfway to meet me, I can't succeed. In this room rests the future of our country." As if that were not flattering enough, Carter gave top Democrats his unlisted home telephone number, urging them to call any time they wanted to offer advice. Said he: "A Secret Service man will answer, and you can tell him I told you to call...
...Carter wanted a Georgia progressive to succeed him as Governor, rather than a primitive like Lester Maddox. Lance was his choice. But despite the expenditure of $1 million on the campaign, he lost the primary to Maddox and George Busbee, the eventual winner. The next year Lance became the president of the National Bank of Georgia, after joining with two Atlanta businessmen to buy the controlling interest for $7.4 million. During the presidential campaign, Lance worked quietly and effectively to soothe business leaders who did not know what to make of a man who called himself a populist...
WHETHER In These Times can succeed as the political voice of a new movement is impossible to predict. The sheer magnitude of the undertaking provokes a fair amount of skepticism. Eugene McCarthy, while not a socialist, made an appeal to the same theoretical constituency as In These Times, and he failed...