Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...storm may be brewing. Reflected a presidential aide: "Forbearance doesn't elicit a more cooperative Congress." Still smarting from the House vote on gas rationing, Carter dashed off sharp notes to Congressmen. To New York Democrat James Hanley, who had explained his vote in a letter described by a White House official as "snotty and insulting," the President answered, "What should I do, put my head in the sand, ignore the problems, or look for a scapegoat...
...encourage Kennedy to get into the race. Last week five members of Congress announced the formation of the Coalition of Democratic Alternatives, which will oppose Carter's renomination. Four of the five say they want Kennedy to be the Democratic nominee. Declared Representative Richard L. Ottinger of New York: "To those who say Senator Kennedy will not run, we say let us develop a national mandate for his candidacy that is irresistible...
...Minnesota, Congressman Nolan is planning to host later this month what may amount to a national convention of pro-Kennedy groups. In New York, State Attorney General Robert Abrams listened to Kennedy recite his well-rehearsed "I expect the President to be nominated and I expect to support his re-election" and then started making some plans for his own Draft Ted organization...
...candidacy have already begun dividing Democrats. By his ambivalence, Kennedy is also helping to undermine Carter's political strength. Ironically, a weakened President will have trouble passing such an important measure as the SALT II treaty, which Kennedy himself favors. Although exaggerating Carter's problem, New York Senator Patrick Moynihan summed up the President's growing dilemma at his outspoken press conference...
...demonstrations were in response to a U.S. Senate resolution deploring Iran's "summary executions" and the pronouncement by an Iranian religious judge that the Shah should be assassinated "in any country where found." The crowds in Tehran were particularly vociferous in attacking New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits, who introduced the resolution, and his wife Marion, who helped obtain the Iran Air account for a New York public relations firm...