Word: brandts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Crisis Change. Then, last week, there was a different tone, in the wake of Nikita Khrushchev's Berlin blockbuster. East Germany's angry belligerence at the Brandenburg Gate had the incidental effect of propelling Candidate Brandt into the limelight and Candidate Adenauer into the wings. As custodian of the embattled city, Willy Brandt was smack in front of the TV cameras when Vice President Lyndon Johnson and the U.S. troop reinforcements arrived to bolster West Berliners' morale...
Although Adenauer was claiming that he had made the first suggestion that the U.S. send a high Government official to Berlin, many would remember that he had rebuked Brandt for his letter to Washington demanding "not merely words, but political action'' to save the city. Belatedly, the busy Chancellor flew up to Berlin last week to address the voters, prompting Bonn's usually pro-C.D.U. General-Anzeiger to note acidly that "an earlier visit certainly would have saved the Berliners many hours of hopelessness.'' The Chancellor had, critics pointed out. found time...
...Will Willy!" To forestall such a drastic possibility, backers of the C.D.U. redoubled their efforts and their contributions. But Brandt was hitting the hustings hard; he had covered 13,000 miles, made 503 speeches in whistle-stop tours through West Germany. Last week he was darting out from West Berlin on quickie one-day junkets to Hanau, Offenbach and Hamm, where audiences shouted, "Ich will Willy! [I want Willy]," the kind of cry his election experts learned how to drum up while following the Kennedy and Nixon campaign trails across the U.S. last fall...
Until the pollsters produced some fresh straw-vote results this week, no one would know how much of a boost the Berlin crisis had actually given Willy Brandt. No one may really know until the electorate gets down to marking the ballots on Sept. 17. But in the wake of the Communists' blow, there was a slight-and only slight-question of Konrad Adenauer's continued dominance...
...Where, in an unworthy blow, he referred to his opponent as "Herr Brandt, alias Frahm" a reference to the Berlin mayor's illegitimate birth...