Word: republican
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Since Kennedy became chairman of the Judiciary Committee last January, he has impressed other Democrats by his ability to get along with the committee's ranking Republican, former Segregationist Strom Thurmond of South Carolina. They were able to compromise, for example, on the testy question of whether nominees for federal judgeships should be required to resign from private clubs that discriminate against blacks. The problem arose over Carter's nomination of a Tennessee jurist, Bailey Brown, to the U.S. Court of Appeals. Brown had a strong pro-civil rights record as a district court judge, but he stubbornly refused...
...Senate floor, Kennedy did not join in the debate, though he is a master at it, acting solemn one moment and laughing at himself the next. (One afternoon, he thundered at Republican Orrin Hatch of Utah, "No, I will not yield, sir," and made a great show of being enraged...
...that night. It was the chief issue that kept Kennedy out of the 1972 presidential race and that caused him to abandon plans to run in 1976. Now Chappaquiddick is again an issue, and one that is already being used against him. Twice Jimmy Carter has alluded to it. Republican John Connally has been blunter. "I never drowned anybody," Connally retorted when asked by a reporter about scandals in his own past...
...separate himself from the pack of Republican contenders, bold John Connally is staking out a series of controversial positions on U.S. foreign policy. As a political strategy it may be a shrewd move, but the policies themselves may prove risky, even dangerous...
Connally's statement predictably evoked howls of outrage from friends of Israel, for whom "self-determination" is a synonym for an independent Palestinian state. They denounced it as capitulation to oil blackmail. Rita Hauser, a prominent New York Republican, quit her post as top Jewish adviser in Connally's campaign. Philadelphia Republican Mayoral Candidate David Marston publicly snubbed the Texan by refusing to be photographed with...