Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hell, I'd vote for Lunkhead Lyndon before I'd ballot for Barry...
Deep Disquiet. Goldwater won the presidential nomination by arduously cultivating support at the precinct and county levels. By the time the convention got started last week, his hard work had already paid off, and he had more than enough delegates to assure him of a first-ballot nomination...
...WILLIAM SCRANTON, even in his losing, sometimes amateurish campaign, was an articulate candidate, appeared gracious and gallant in his final acceptance of defeat. Appearing before the convention after the first ballot had signaled his defeat, Scranton said: "Some of us did not prevail at this convention. But let it be clearly understood that this great Republican Party is our historic house. This is our home. We have no intention of deserting it. We are still Republicans-and not very still ones either. And let the Democratic Party find no comfort in the spirited campaign we have waged within...
...half hours before the ballot, Vanocur accosted Scranton's floor manager, Pennsylvania's Senator Hugh Scott, and extracted from him remarks that were an almost overt admission that Scranton had already conceded defeat. Though reporters and delegates on the spot may have known it, the TV audience across the country did not-getting in addition a little episode of ineptitude on the part of Scott. Chancellor, on the other hand, made capital amusement out of his own arrest. Led out of the hall by a sergeant at arms for refusing to clear an aisle, he kept yattering into...
VANOGRE: Senator, most people here feel that Senator Goldwater has the nomination wrapped up on the first ballot. Do you really feel that Governor Scranton has any chance at all of winning the nomination? Isn't this campaign just an exercise in futility now? Don't you feel that the cause is hopeless at this point? Aren't you just going through the motions...