Word: democratic
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...Armistice that ended World War I, Nixon visited patients at a Washington veterans' hospital. Then, on the eve of M-day II, he invited Senators and Representatives from both parties to the White House to thank them for Capitol Hill support. A House resolution introduced by Democrat Jim Wright of Texas backs the President broadly "in his efforts to negotiate a just peace" and specifically in the details of his policy; it now has 309 sponsors. Fifty-nine Senators have signed a letter to the U.S. delegation in Paris that is less explicit but also praises Nixon for seeking...
...Columbia, 1947 (M.S.). Reporter, Newark Evening News, 1947-49; night city editor, 1949-50. Joined NBC News in 1950; news editor, Camel News Caravan, 1951-54; producer, political convention coverage, 1956, 1960 and 1964; producer Huntley-Brinkley Report, 1956-62 and 1963-65. Married, two sons. Registered Democrat...
...Salt Lake City, attended University of Utah. City editor, Salt Lake City Deseret News, 1935-40; night editor, New York Herald-Tribune Paris edition, 1944-49; associate editor, Collier's, 1949; managing editor, Look, 1952-54; producer, CBS News from 1954. Married (to Betty Furness), three children. Registered Democrat...
...begin with, but there is no way we can get out. I didn't vote for Nixon, but we've got to support him now." Bob Steffenauer, 46, owns a restaurant in Pleasanton, Calif., and recently welcomed his son back from Viet Nam. He counts himself a Kennedy Democrat but says that some protest leaders "want to subvert Government policy and sink this country. I know Nixon is right in what he's doing." The antiwar protesters are, of course, just as convinced that Nixon is wrong. In the middle are perhaps most Americans?the true silent majority...
...elections across the nation. Like the city's Mets, John Lindsay came from ignominy to take the mayoralty of New York, and did it without the endorsement of either major party. In Virginia, moderate Republican Linwood Holton seized the Governor's mansion, occupied for 84 years by Democrats. In Cleveland, Carl Stokes, the nation's first black mayor of a major city, had the aid of white votes in winning a second term against a strong white challenger. In Buffalo, Mayor Frank Sedita, a middle-road Democrat, staved off a black independent challenger...