Word: brandts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...troubles, Erhard's personal popularity and deserved reputation as the father of German prosperity remain immense. Regardless of party standing, the polls still favor Erhard as Chancellor over Socialist Leader Willy Brandt. A vigorous mayor of West Berlin, Brandt simply lacks the stature of a national leader, a fact that the Karlsruhe convention recognized when, in drawing up its election program, it emphasized the party more than the man. The convention also appointed a "shadow Cabinet" of able technicians to show the electorate that the Socialists have more to offer than just Brandt...
Even with Der Dicke's face on the posters, the voters gave Willy Brandt's rival Social Democrats an overall gain of nearly 5%. In West Germany's populous industrial Rhine River heartland, the Socialists won absolute majorities in 24 of the 38 major cities-including Konrad Adenauer's traditionally safe bastion of Cologne...
...Aachen, West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt unveiled a memorial to European unity with the plea that "the dead of the nations of Europe shall not have passed into nothingness." Free Democratic Party Leader Erich Mende in a broadcast beamed into East Germany reminded his listeners that it was Stalin's pact with Hitler a week earlier that had made the rape of Poland possible...
...smiles and chats with family and friends. At week's end, with her sister Princess Radziwill, Caroline and John Jr., she flew to a family reunion in Hyannis Port, and to appear in a transatlantic TV birthday tribute with Britain's Harold Macmillan, Berlin's Willy Brandt, Ireland's Sean Lemass...
That sort of thing simply did not work well for West Berlin's Mayor Brandt, a political lightweight whose popularity is concentrated in his own city. Chancellor Ludwig Erhard kept himself and his C.D.U. loftily above party battles. "Ach ja," he deadpanned at the end of one speech, "I almost forgot, you're having an election here soon." Erhard accurately counted on his immense popularity as architect of Germany's economic miracle. "Shall I tell you what I have achieved?" he asked complacently. "I wouldn't think of it. There is no one who doesn...