Word: calle
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...roll call progressed, it was obvious that Nixon was faring exactly as he had expected. The candidate, watching television and keeping his own tally in his penthouse suite, could have noted in the first several states an extra vote here and there beyond his minimal requirements. Then Florida and Georgia came through with large majorities?evidence that the Reagan movement had collapsed. Maryland delivered 18 out of 26. Four Michiganders deserted Romney. Mississippi's unit rule held for the entire delegation of 20. The undermining of Case's position in New Jersey produced a welcome...
...past noon when Nixon ended the talks by observing: "Well, I think the meeting has accomplished about all that it can accomplish." Morton put in a call to Agnew. "Are you sitting down?" Morton inquired. Nixon got on the phone and broke the news. "I'm overwhelmed," said Agnew, whose stoic expression rarely admits of such a condition...
...Nixon will get much black support in any case. Agnew may be helpful, on the other hand, in the border regions and some Southern states, such as Virginia, Texas, Florida and North Carolina, in which Nixon has a fighting chance to best George Wallace. This is what Nixon men call a ''peripheral strategy," more or less conceding the Deep South to Wallace. To capture the Presidency, however, the Republicans must sweep much of the West as well, while carrying some of the vote-heavy states, including Ohio, New Jersey and Michigan. New York will probably be an insurmountable problem...
...Baltimore riots were even more traumatic for Agnew, who had to call out some 5,700 National Guardsmen and ask for nearly 4,800 federal troops to restore order. Agnew suspected a conspiracy, citing a visit to Baltimore by Stokely Carmichael several days before the trouble?and King's murder?as evidence. Within hours after the shooting stopped, he called 100 moderate Negro leaders into his office and gave them a tongue-lashing for not having counteracted Carmichael's fulminations. "You were intimidated by veiled threats," the Governor told them. "You were stung by insinuations that you were Mr. Charlie...
SLOWLY, the roll call proceeded down through the alphabet. When it came to W, West Virginia, then Wisconsin, spirits in the Rockefeller suite at the Hotel Americana fell as flat as the champagne that had earlier been ordered for a victory celebration. Bitterly disappointed as he was, Nelson Rockefeller seemed almost relieved at the same time. Hugging his wife Happy, he whispered, "Now we can really relax." Stepping out into the hall a few minutes later, he sighed to no one in particular...