Word: asset
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...others, like Ted Sorensen, with none. Sorensen urged votes for Humphrey as the candidate "least likely to sink us all." Antiwar demonstrators still heckle and curse the Vice President (they even booed Kennedy in Boston for appearing with Humphrey), but the foulmouthed fringe may prove more of an asset than a liability in the long...
...fundamental if delicately controlled change in the world's intricate monetary system. Other nations hold pounds and dollars, along with gold, as reserves to help underpin the value of their own currencies, using them to bankroll trade and settle international accounts. British pounds constitute the main reserve asset for the 66-member sterling area, which consists of British dependencies and Commonwealth members (except Canada), plus Ireland, several Arab and a few Asian states. When Britain devalued the pound last November, the value of these other countries' reserves fell 14.3% overnight...
...Gallup ratings (35% approval, 52% disapproval). Of course, a President can still hit the campaign trail and call it "governmental" rather than partisan activity if he so chooses. Aside from Texas, however, there are few places where the President is likely to be more an asset than a detriment to Humphrey -and even Texas could turn out to be G.O.P. territory...
Muskie's family should be an asset to the ticket. He and his wife have five children ("three queens and two jacks"), aged 19 to seven. Jane Muskie, who was a Protestant and a Republican when, as a clerk in a Waterville dress shop, she first met her future husband in 1946, later converted to his political and religious faiths. They now live in a six-bedroom colonial house in Bethesda, Md., but also maintain a vacation cottage in Kennebunk Beach, Me. The Senator fishes and hunts in the Maine woods, sails off the coast, and is an amateur carpenter...
Certainly the Marylander will be no asset to the ticket among Negro voters, although it is doubtful that Nixon will get much black support in any case. Agnew may be helpful, on the other hand, in the border regions and some Southern states, such as Virginia, Texas, Florida and North Carolina, in which Nixon has a fighting chance to best George Wallace. This is what Nixon men call a ''peripheral strategy," more or less conceding the Deep South to Wallace. To capture the Presidency, however, the Republicans must sweep much of the West as well, while carrying some...