Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...real world. President Carter came to Lynn to campaign for Paul E. Tsongas and to try to avoid associating himself with Edward J. King. Despite Carter's snub, King won the gubernatorial race, joining Tsongas in the Democratic sweep...
...Florida, 70 pro-Kennedy Democrats, including some key early supporters of Carter in 1975, gathered to begin fund raising and to make plans to win a straw vote of the state party convention in November. At the state convention in 1975, Carter began his successful campaign to win the Florida primary and thus end George Wallace's presidential candidacy. Said Organizer Mike Abrams: "The country is starving for leadership...
...real question now is not whether Levesque will lose the referendum but when. The Premier, who made a campaign promise that the referendum would take place some time during his first term, has repeatedly delayed the vote; it will probably not be taken before next spring...
...segregated black ghetto because it was the only place where his family could afford to buy a home. Armed with a taste for politics and a sense of social justice, he got a night-school law degree from Georgetown University, gravitated to Lyndon Johnson's 1964 campaign, and wound up as the President's appointments secretary, one of the handful of White House staffers closest to L.B.J. Of that period he now says, "We created a lot of cynicism, both for those supposedly being helped and those footing the bill. Our ideas far surpassed our ability to make...
...academy has two other working members.* One is the San Francisco Chronicle's Art Hoppe, 54, who tucks away moral lessons in his whimsical scenes, events and characters-like the Harvard-educated gorilla who chucks his campaign for the presidency to run for Johnny Carson's job, and the Ratt of Phynkia, who declares peace on the neighboring Republic of Mbonga to win U.S. foreign aid, then calls it off when he learns he would have to take the aid in weapons. "Writing a column beats honest work," says Hoppe. "It leaves the mornings free for other projects...