Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...that point, Arthur Burns, a moderate conservative who now heads the Federal Reserve, and Pat Moynihan, a Democrat who served Kennedy and Johnson, were the top two staff men on domestic affairs. Each pushed his own ideas, Cabinet members pressed for theirs, and Nixon found himself in need of a coordinator of domestic programs comparable to Henry Kissinger in foreign affairs. The President put Ehrlichman in the job and will doubtless upgrade him further on July 1, when the Domestic Affairs Council?a counterpart to the National Security Council?comes into being...
People also seem to be listening to Joseph Duffey, 37, a minister of the United Church of Christ, as he attempts to take the Democratic senatorial nomination away from Connecticut's aging, ailing Thomas Dodd, 63. National chairman of the Americans for Democratic Action, Duffey proposes reorienting Connecticut's defense industries for non-military production, plays down his clerical credentials. "I am not running as a clergyman," he says. "I am running as a citizen, a Democrat and a father...
...intervention, none of the clerical candidates are going to coast to victory. Most, in fact, seem to be certain losers who will be satisfied if their candidacies force some political conversions. One clergyman has already succeeded in doing just that. Congressman Thaddeus Dulski. a six-term Buffalo, N.Y.. Democrat, used to take a hard line on the Viet Nam War. But after the Rev. Hugh Carmichael, an antiwar Episcopal priest, entered the race, Dulski changed his position; he now advocates withdrawal of all U.S. troops by a specific deadline...
McCormack is a man of codes and creeds. He found all he needed in party loyalty and Catholic piety, though sometimes there were conflicts. John Kennedy's original aid-to-education bill omitted funds for parochial schools, thereby provoking one of McCormack's rare rebellions against a Democratic President. McCormack prevailed. They called him the "Archbishop" in the cloakrooms, and he resented it. Despite his close association with Southern Democrats throughout his House career, McCormack was also a strong advocate of civil rights legislation. He once denounced a Mississippi Democrat on the floor for his bigotry...
...chairman of a Special Un-American Activities Committee in the 1930s−made him a strident antiCommunist. Issues, however, concerned him less than the party line. As with other old-school legislators, his capital was discipline and personal obligation. Once while presiding over the House, he noticed a conservative Democrat lobbying several New Jersey members in the back of the chamber. McCormack left his place and marched on the group. "This is a McCormack bill," he told the Jerseyites. "Are you for McCormack or for this fellow?" He kept their votes...