Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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NIXON LEADING: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming. Total electoral votes: 320 (needed for victory...
...groups [political, ethnic and labor factions, some at odds with others]. Well, now we've got an organization going in Texas. We're going to win Texas. You know how a town looks after a cyclone has passed through? Well, that was what we looked like in California. New York? Not even Bobby Kennedy could put that together. Now New York is a standoff. We're going to win it. We've had to get all the aunts and uncles and cousins to agree to come back and have a family reunion and family picture taken...
...coaxed back in a Humphrey Administration. Robert McNamara and Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes are mentioned interchangeably for the departments of Transportation and of Housing and Urban Development. Oklahoma Senator Fred Harris is being considered for Agriculture or Interior along with North Dakota's Democratic Governor William Guy. California's Republican Senator Thomas Kuchel is also a possibility for Agriculture. A Humphrey Cabinet would almost certainly contain Republicans, and might include a woman, perhaps Patricia Roberts Harris, former Ambassador to Luxembourg...
Nelson Rockefeller is mentioned for Secretary of Defense because of his credentials as an administrator, and George Romney might get Commerce for the same reason. Robert Finch, Lieutenant Governor of California and one of Nixon's closest friends, will most likely get a Cabinet post-if he wants one. At the moment, his greatest ambition is to become a U.S. Senator. Maurice Stans, Eisenhower's Budget Director, has the inside track for Treasury...
...they kept the band working, Americans set record after record. Texas' strapping Randy Matson won the shotput and set an Olympic record of 67 ft. 10¾ in.; California's Bob Seagren soared to another new Olympic mark by clearing 17 ft. 8½ in. in the pole vault. In the short dashes, California's Jim Hines clocked 9.9 sec. in the men's 100 meters to tie his own pending world record, and Georgia's Wyomia Tyus won the women's 100 in 11 sec. flat. Then, in the field events, there...