Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Probably the most aggressive news questioner at presidential press conferences, Kaplow, 42, effectively employs his broadcast-trained voice to push Press Secretary Ron Ziegler hard at daily briefings. He has covered Nixon longer than any of the other new reporters, has interviewed him frequently since his 1956 vice-presidential campaign. A 14-year network veteran, Kaplow thinks quickly, and manages to capsule presidential news neatly in the limited time...
Last night's meeting also voted a petition campaign to reiterate the seven demands, commend those who occupied University Hall, and demand that they not be punished. The petition will also urge that no one cooperate with the Committee of 15 by talking informally with any member of it and that the Committee be dissolved...
...reasoning behind Calkins' public-ralations campaign was a sophisticated variation on the original report's relatively simple task. The report unearthed the problems, but Cleveland still slumbered. What Calkins had to do was make the public feel sufficiently disturbed about its crowded schools. Then they might mobilize their city's finances to hire more teachers...
Calkins was immediately cast in the role of crusading reformer challenging the entrenched party hacks. He ran an exhausting campaign, fought hard to shake a suburbanite-carpet-bagger image, and finally came in third out of six candidates. That was enough to get him a four-year seat on the Board...
Since then, Calkins' record has been surprisingly consistent with the outlines he set during his PACE days. During the campaign and after the election, he emphasized the same PACE issues. Cleveland needed better schools, more money, closer cooperation with industry...