Word: bloopers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...question pungently enough. He got off his share of quips. He correctly forecast, for example, that the nominating speech for Senator Hiram Fong "will tell us more than we want to know about Hawaii." And, in 35 hours on the anchor watch, Cronkite committed only one embarrassing blooper by confusing Crooner Tony Martin with Tony Bennett...
Seeking to make his own break, Rocky kept lambasting Nixon. For several days, he made capital of a blooper by Nixon's Southern campaign manager, Congressman Howard ("Bo") Callaway, who declared: "Perhaps we can get George Wallace on our side. That's where he belongs." Nixon finally disavowed any connection with the former Alabama Governor...
While the Dorado Beach strategy did not take the mainland by storm, it was a viable working plan as long as Romney remained afloat. But premature and excessive exposure, clumsy articulation of ideas and downright ineptness, especially the "brainwashing" blooper, dissipated his early popularity. After his withdrawal, Romney volunteered that he had entered the competition before fully developing his positions...
Mickey Could Win. Scanning the rest of the field, Lindsay remarked that Michigan's Governor George Romney is probably dead politically, and was moribund even before he weighed in with his "brainwashing" blooper. Richard Nixon would be acceptable unless he pursued an overly militant line on the war. Ronald Reagan would be anathema to the party moderates; Lindsay thinks that the conservatives would probably not even press Reagan's candidacy, since they want a Republican victory this time rather than another Goldwater-style debacle...
...used an unfortunate phrase. An isolated phrase, however, in no way proves that these are his beliefs, and I think there is a good deal of evidence that Johnson is not an advocate of Fascism. It also seems incredible to damn a public statesman on the basis of a blooper...