Word: preservationists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...RHODES, 59, who succeeded Ford as House minority leader, will be chairman of the Kansas City convention. A Goldwater conservative from Arizona, Rhodes is popular with many moderates as well. His opposition to environmental issues has landed him on a list of a "Dirty Dozen" marked for defeat by preservationist groups. His House background (a member since 1953, minority leader since 1973) is too similar to Ford's to do anything to blunt Jimmy Carter's non-Washington appeal...