Word: camped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Camp Followers. The polls were not quite as beneficent as Kennedy might wish. The first Gallup poll matching the Democrats since President Johnson's withdrawal showed the New Yorker ahead of both Hubert Humphrey and Eugene McCarthy in a three-way race (35% to 31% for Humphrey and 23% for McCarthy) and ahead of both again in a double race (45% to 41% against Humphrey; 46% to 37% against McCarthy). The margins were less than overwhelming, however, particularly since Humphrey is still not an announced candidate...
...staff was growing. Speechwriter Richard Goodwin came over from the McCarthy camp, and Postmaster General Larry O'Brien resigned from Lyndon Johnson's Cabinet and began advising Bobby on the critical Indiana primary...
Impressively Broad. His most immediate challenge is to slow his rivals, and the Humphrey camp seemed to be succeeding. Last week his backers announced formation of United Democrats for Humphrey. The sponsors included an impressively broad geographic and factional cross section of party leaders and allies-broader than any that either Kennedy or McCarthy has been able to construct...
...which is echoed by her twin brother Tim's adamant refusal to accept either a student deferment or the draft. Uppermost in prompting her decision to renounce martial ways is her intense Roman Catholic faith; her horror of war was reinforced by the sight of Marines in boot camp at Parris Island, S.C., and "the lost look in their eyes...
Sylvan Setting. During the diplomatic pas de deux by Washington and Hanoi, Johnson sought to emphasize that the U.S. had its right hand "up high." After conferring with Johnson in the sylvan setting of Camp David, Md., Defense Secretary Clark Clifford returned to the capital to announce that 24,500 Army, Air Force and Navy reservists and National Guardsmen were being called...