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Thursday, November 7, 1974
University Daily Kansan
Victorious Democrats must handle inflation . . .
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give the Democrats a chance to show what,
if anything they could produce.
"The ball is in their court," said House Republican Leader John J. Rhodes of Ohio.
The burden of producing may fall most heavily on the heretofore disorganized House Democrats, with aggressive liberals trying to take the lead.
Rep. Phillip Burton of California, an outspoken liberal, is already running for caucus chairman with an avowed goal of welding the party into a more organized
Whatever degree of success he achieves, however, few expect the House, despite the Democratic two-firms majority, to become President Gerald R. Ford had cannapped.
The problems faced by Democrats are more than matched by those of President Ford. He heads into the final two years of his presidency, and the weakest Republican party in a decade.
In fact, the Senate, with a somewhat smaller Democratic percentage, may pose an even greater threat to the President than the Republican Liberals generally support the Democrats.
Both organizationally and ideologically, Ford faces difficulties in gearing up for the 1976 presidential race, which his aides still see as possible.
On the organizational side, Republicans have lost control of eight of the ten biggest states—all but Michigan and Ohio—in a showing comparable to that of 1958, two
years before Democrats recaptured the presidency after an eight-year absence.
The number of Republicans in the House is the second lowest since the 1930s, just a half-century old.
In the Senate, only a series of cliff-hanger wins prevented serious GOP losses.
But, although Democrats have been rearmed by off-year elections for clashes with Ford over the way to handle America's economic llls, party leaders have put the emphasis on possible compromise and cooperation with Ford.
Ford, whose party was stumped by the
of-year election landlady, readily
received.
"We will meet Congress more than halfway," he said through an aide.
Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield of Montana came to the White House to talk cooperation and compromise with Ford.
"We may make suggestions, but if anything is to be done, Dodge is going to have to agree. The name of the game is going to come up, and said a source close to the House leadership.
With virtually all votes counted,
Republicans faced this gloomy picture:
- Democrates had captured 43 extra house seats for a total of 291, a clear two-thirds split in the 295 seats of Democrat wins in Lyndon B. Johnson's landslide a decade ago.
-Democrats had picked up three Senate seats, for a total of 61.
--They had scored a net gain of four governorships, including the biggest states
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—A resolution that would prohibit solicitation of students or faculty on campus unless the solicitors maintain a booth, table or other stationary position so that involvement by students or faculty would be avoided. (For example, the Archie R. Dykes to reschedule the priorities of funding allocation of the University of Kansas library system.)
—A resolution asking that the affirmative plan be coordinated with other goals at KU and with the classroom instruction be the highest priority at KU and a resolution asking for Senate endorsement of the analysis of the student body by the Council of Student Body President.
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Gregory said the finance and audit committee would abide by advice given by Davis.
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of New York and California, for a new total of 36.
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Ford had warned that big Democratic gains could result in a 'dictatorial', vetoed decree.
The GOP President, in office less than three months, was described by aides as "clearly a socialist."
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undertake "a very strong, aggressive rebuilding program."
But even with Democrats holding a two-thirds edge in the House, the wholesale overriding of Ford vetoes isn't a realistic scenario. Philosophic differences within both parties.
House Speaker Carl Albert, D-Doka,
declared the results a repudiation of Ford's
economic proposals and said Democrats
had a mandate for action on such programs
While votes were still being counted,
Davis and his professional leaders were
waking a laceration.
Democratic Sen. Henry Jackson of Washington, who won't up for re-election, said the Democratic landslide might cause him to dislodge of his presidential intentions.
"The victory will be when we start to get the kind of legislation out which this country needs—even if we don't get any executive leadership to help us get it," he said.
endorsed 110 gubernatorial, Senate and congressional candidates. More than half of them lost, including Paul Goebel, the GOP nominee in Ford's former Grand Rapids, Mish., district.
Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia, assistant Democratic Senate leader, added tax reform to the list of Democratic priorities. The senator spoke of an open-ended agenda for action.
as national health insurance, tax reform and public service employment.
"No one thinks this was a referendum on the President. . . It will not affect the President's decision that he probably will run for election in 1976," he said.
From the White House, Ford acknowledged that his party had been soundly licked. He singled out inflation as the top issue, and said "the mandate of the electorate places upon the next Congress a responsibility for resolving this problem."
The elections produced a fresh crop of potential Democratic candidates for national office. Among them were governors-select Edmund G. Brown Jr. of Oklahoma and John C. Koehler and senators-select John H. Glenn Jr. of Ohio and Dale Bumpers of Arkansas.
Nessen quoted Ford as telling GOP National Chairman Mary Louise Smith in an election-night telephone chat, "I'm not sure we will have come back before, and we will, too."
But White House spokesman Ron Nessen was optimistic.
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In his strenuous campaign for a cooperative Congress, Ford had specifically
Smith said later that the party would soon
But it darkened the prospects of another rasing Democratic star-Gov. John G. John II, who was unassessed by former Gov. John Rhodes in so close that a recount was almost certain.
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