Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Democratic Senator Henry Jackson's acceptance of a post on Reagan's military advisory panel strengthens his chances of becoming Secretary of Defense; that would give the Cabinet a bi-partisan aura. The leading candidates for Secretary of State, if Shultz does not get the job, are now William Simon, a former Secretary of the Treasury, and Alexander Haig, former Nixon chief of staff. Thomas Sowell, a black conservative economist at Stanford's Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, may enter the Cabinet as Secretary of Labor or Education...
...party remained, after all, the voice of the American majority, still something like the fractiously diverse pluralistic parade that Roosevelt organized. Now Democrats will have to face the truth: their party has been rusting and clunking along for years on only two or three cylinders. Unless they recover their partisan energies and intellectual vigor, the Democrats could enter a long historical passage of declining influence and relevance, becoming the political equivalent of some of the decaying cities of the Northeast, once flourishingly productive, the exuberant places where the modern Democratic Party originated...
...more at the mercy of the press, there were frequent angry cries of bias. Hearing few such complaints from politicians this time, the Boston Globe's Winship frets that "we are probably not doing our job." That's more hair-shirting than is necessary; the rarity of partisan bias was refreshing. Several usually vociferous press commentators seemed stunned by unenthusiasm. "It's impossible to determine which of these men would be the more capable President," concluded the Washington Post's David S. Broder. On the Sunday before the election, Columnist Joseph Kraft lamented: "My own mind...
Before the partisan crowd of 400, Dave Fasi regained the momentum for Harvard with two goals in the first 90 seconds of overtime. Three more unanswered goals from a fired-up Crimson squad clinched the decision, and MIT's lone overtime tally was too little and too late to alter the 13-9 Crimson victory...
...obviously partisan Democratic crowd, Frank's victory was dampened by the national results...