Word: supportiveness
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...also shown a decisiveness and political pragmatism that his father lacked, though he is willing to suffer for principle: he might have had a Senate nomination two years ago but refused to pledge support for Lyndon Johnson's Viet Nam policies. This time, Chicago's Mayor Daley and his invaluable political machine came to Stevenson...
BELLA ABZUG. One of the fall's liveliest campaigns produced a colorful new Congresswoman. Mrs. Bella Abzug, 50, trademark brimmed hat pulled over her head, canvassed Greenwich Village, Lower East Side and West Side streets of Manhattan's 19th Congressional District seeking support for her antiwar, Women's Liberation views. She upset a longtime Democratic incumbent in the primary, then turned her energies on her Republican opponent, Barry Farber, a local radio interviewer. Farber (who is Jewish) accused Mrs. Abzug (who is Jewish) of being anti-Israel. But Mrs. Abzug said she had long been active...
...friend of his days on Governor Ronald Reagan's staff, White House Adviser Robert Finch, and from Nixon's director of communications, Herb Klein. Kemp, 35, who campaigned for Barry Goldwater in 1964, pointed his campaign to the right of center, wiring the President his support of the Cambodian invasion and calling for a moratorium on criticism of the Administration's war policies...
...House. Du Font's background includes America's Cup yachting, Phillips Exeter, Princeton and Harvard Law School, and a stint as an executive in the family's chemical company. Republican Du Pont ran a strict party-line campaign, stressing law-and-order and withdrawing his earlier support of Charles Goodell when the White House opened its attack on the New York Senator. The scion of one of the country's largest fortunes also stressed environmental issues during his campaign, advocating stiffer fines for industrial air and water polluters-which included Du Pont. Pierre will...
Tonight I want to persuade you to vote Republican, not because we are more patriotic, or more virtuous, or more opposed to violence than others, but because this Administration has considerable achievements to its credit and they deserve support. We have brought home many Americans, and intend to bring home more, from the throes of a tragic war. By standing firm, this Administration placed America in the role of mediator rather than of intruder during the crisis in Jordan. We are negotiating with Russia to limit strategic arms production. At home, we have taken in hand the difficult, unpopular...