Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus two men, at least, were out: Charles Rhyne, former American Bar Association president, a Nixon classmate at Duke law school and a personal friend, and Attorney General John Mitchell, the 1968 campaign manager. A third, Herbert Brownell, Eisenhower's Attorney General?and Burger's boss for three years in the Justice Department in the early '50s?withdrew of his own accord because he thought his former job would raise opposition in the Senate. A fourth, Potter Stewart, an Eisenhower appointee to the court, took himself out because he thought that elevation of an Associate Justice would create friction...
...elections, have reason for restraint; they wish to do nothing to help Anthony Imperiale, who bases his candidacy on white fear of the Negroes. Blacks in Cleveland are likely to reunite behind Negro Mayor Carl Stokes, who is up for re-election this fall. The mayoral campaign of Negro City Councilman Tom Bradley in Los Angeles has helped to rally that city's Negro community-and to raise black hopes for a more sympathetic city hall than Sam Yorty...
Close associates of Kennedy's meanwhile began to talk about the likely consequences of a death sentence. Civil libertarians might start a campaign to save Sirhan from the gas chamber. Some friends envisioned demonstrations in front of Ted's Senate office or Ethel's Hickory Hill home...
FRANCE In the final days of campaigning in the first round of France's presidential elections, the two major candidates seemed to be following The Making of The President, 1960 chapter by chapter. Interim President Alain Poher put away his steel-rimmed glasses that had turned into hundreds of tiny distracting mirrors during his TV appearance, and adopted the horn-rimmed nonreflecting kind. Gaullist Georges Pompidou had his bushy eyebrows trimmed to improve his on-camera appearance and turned on a whirlwind, U.S.-style campaign, crisscrossing the country by helicopter and executive jet. Offering a something-for- everyone platform...
Poher has already worked out his strategy for that final phase of the campaign. He intends to emerge from the Elysée Palace with an aggressive attack on the Gaullist record that Pompidou inescapably shares. As Poher's strategists see it, all they need now to ensure certain victory is a word of endorsement from De Gaulle-for Pompidou...