Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the Democrats need a period of "rest and recuperation." Murray Kempton wrote that the Democrats "deserve to lose." Novelist Norman Mailer concluded that Nixon might not be all that bad (see THE PRESS). Michigan's New Democratic Coalition refused to endorse the party ticket. California's Young Democrats voted not "to even begin to consider" supporting Humphrey unless he agrees to meet six demands, including a pledge of immediate withdrawal of U.S. forces from Viet...
...anti-Humphrey liberals, the war is the most passionate rallying cry, but not the only one. Having received the nomination on the strength of the urban machines and the big wheels of organized labor, Humphrey suffers from guilt by association. Martin Stone, a McCarthy leader in California, says of Humphrey's future: "He's finished. Nothing is going to change that. The old buffaloes are on their last legs." California's former Governor Pat Brown, an orthodox liberal of the Humphrey stripe, laments: "It's a bad day for guys like me who have worked...
...Peace and Freedom Party was originally formed in California. Made up of students and graduates of Boston area schools, the Cambridge Party has over 40 members. Party members already have distributed leaflets in favor of rent control throughout Cambridge...
...Democrat Jeffrey Cohelan of California said, "Right now, we're holding on. It will be several years before we're able to start moving again...
...from round here, are ya?" A quiet no. Where you from boy?" I'm from California sir. "What choo doin' down here in our part of the country, boy?" Just travelling through sir. "How you like our niggers, boy? You ain't one of them nigger lovers, are ya now?" An inaudible reply. "Well ah'm sure relieved to hear that. We've got so sick of all these hippies and nigger lovers that come down here. Just makes you want to bash 'em and clean the town up--just like killin' the rats so's decent people can have...