Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sept. 14: Thieu announces that Major General Duong Van Minh ("Big Minh"), leader of anti-Diem coup in 1963, will return from exile to become a presidential adviser. Minh is one of few South Vietnamese deemed acceptable to Hanoi and N.L.F...
...Big Minh returns to Saigon, and the present period begins...
...chance of a bombing pause brought it back into sudden political prominence. Both Nixon and Humphrey strategists agree that a break in the war could help Humphrey, the Administration's defender, by as much as two percentage points in the popular vote on Election Day. With such big, key states as New York, Pennsylvania and Michigan now rated as tossups, a bombing halt could conceivably give Humphrey a significant though probably not decisive boost in electoral votes...
Against overpowering evidence, Humphrey himself maintains a visceral conviction that he can still win. "I'm down in the Farm Belt and in the Rocky Mountains," he says. "I know that. But I'm going to win the big states and the big electoral vote, and I'm going to win the election." Jetting from New York to Texas to California last week, seeking to rekindle traditional party loyalty among Jews, Negroes and Spanish-Americans, Humphrey rasped appeals and encouragement to his troops...
This is George Wallace's second constituency in the north, and one gets the feeling that it co-exists rather uneasily with his constituency of lower-middle class wage-earners in the big industrial cities. Although they affect the same concerns--one farmer from near Harrisburg told me that he was afraid that rioters were going to come and burn down his barn--they have little else in common, and the Wallace movement is related to them in different ways. It depends on the middle-class right-wingers for money, and on the blue-collar workers for the mass support...