Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Time to Nap? Kennedy got moving like a honeybee in the spring. He patrolled the reaches of Los Angeles in a white Cadillac. Invading caucus after caucus, he made his plea for support, fitting each ad-lib speech to the mood of the moment or the region. Farmers need help, he told lowans; the West's natural resources need development, he warned Coloradans. On and on he pushed, relentlessly, coolly, gathering applause, staving off trouble from the opposition. Between caucuses, he held court with a parade of politicos in his Biltmore suite (Apartment Q), or checked new lists...
Jack Kennedy pounced on the U.S.'s dwindling prestige, promised to campaign in Pennsylvania if nominated and "make this election the most significant in 25 years." When they had finished, Dave Lawrence led the biggest question-mark delegation in the nation into caucus, told them that he was for Jack Kennedy...
...Bobby's heyday as the grand inquisitor of the Senate McClellan committee, when he was making Jimmy Hoffa squirm, the clan became totally absorbed in the investigation, discussed it over every dinner table and every long-distance telephone call and beat a path to the white marble Senate Caucus Room. Even the in-laws are not immune to the sudden fevers: Bobby's wife Ethel, often accompanied by two or three of her older children, was a daily onlooker at the hearings last summer, well into the seventh month of her seventh pregnancy. When the Peter Lawfords encountered...
...pilot of the bandwagon wanted, for the time was at hand to convince the bosses of the big holdout states that they would be left far behind at the Los Angeles convention if they did not scramble aboard. But there was no stampede. In New York, the delegates' caucus at Albany handed Kennedy a predicted minimum of 87 out of 114. In Manhattan, Kennedy himself paid a call on the Liberal Party policy committee and pledged lasting devotion to civil rights, announced that he had no strength in the South and was seeking none. (Coupled with a Washington endorsement...
Alaska (9): Uncommitted, with 1½ votes each for Johnson and Symington, 3 votes for Kennedy and 3 for Stevenson, but a voluntary unit rule could tip it either way at pre-convention caucus...