Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Parts of the list that most people wil miss appear to be compiled in stream-of-consciousness style. "Tobacco Road" follows "Poor Side of Town" at 208; "California Girls" and "California Nights" are linked at 194, behind "Blue Suede Shoes" and "Blue Velvet;" and the Critters "Mr. Dieingly Sad," No. 156, is in its appropriate follow-up position to their previous hit, "Younger Girl...
Acid & Acrimony. Every bit as aggressive as Rusk, Vice President Hubert Humphrey ranged from Minnesota to California and back to Washington, where he decried the "notes of acrimony, the acid quality heard today on our objectives." He said that "the war would be shortened considerably if Americans showed their sense of purpose." House Speaker John McCormack warned as well that further divisiveness over Viet Nam would only prolong the war. If he were guilty of giving such comfort, McCormack added, "my conscience would disturb me the rest of my life...
With the notable exceptions of Richard Nixon and Illinois' Senator Charles Percy, the leading contenders for the G.O.P. nomination were all ticketed for the trip-New York's Nelson Rockefeller, Michigan's George Romney and California's Ronald Reagan. And there were enough potential vice-presidential candidates to create a traffic jam on the promenade deck. Among them: Massachusetts' John Volpe, Rhode Island's John Chafee, Ohio's James Rhodes, Wisconsin's Warren Knowles, Colorado's John Love, New Mexico's David Cargo, Washington's Daniel Evans, even Nelson...
...imagine Reagan has come on as fast as he has?" His analysis could be correct. But it may also turn out that voters in the suburbs and big cities of the East, Midwest and even parts of the South are less receptive to Reagan's appeal than was California's electorate...
Accompanying Lowenstein was Gerald Hill, chairman of the liberal California Democratic Council, who assured the student Democrats that his organization's anti-Johnson slate would triumph in the 1968 Presidential Primary...