Word: cheerfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Socialists, Too. Humphrey could take a modicum of cheer from some signs of Democratic reunion. Fortnight ago, most party leaders in Texas and State Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh in California declined to appear with...
...than man has ever known. Yet not even Krock is convinced that his rumblings of impending doom should be taken full strength. With the innate humor he seldom displayed in 60 years of portentous prose, he recalls in his memoirs the advice once offered him by Franklin D. Roosevelt: "Cheer up, Arthur. Things have seldom been as bad as you said they were...
...that grim year, Republicans had little to cheer about. An exception was the gubernatorial election in Washington State, where Civil Engineer Daniel Jackson Evans, still in his 30s, bucked the Johnson tide and pulled off a long-shot upset over a two-term Democratic incumbent. Two years later, a flock of Republicans duplicated Dan Evans' blueprint. On Capitol Hill, where they added 47 Congressmen and three Senators, and in the statehouses, where they picked up eight governorships, 1966 was a G.O.P. year...
...first morning of the Convention, for example,they cheered enthusiastically when John Wayne said he wants his daughter to be proud of his country's fighting men. They did not cheer at all when Senator Jacob Javits said the GOP must solve the law-and-order problem by "reconciliation" rather than "repression." Javits was going too far. What he should have said to suit this Convention is simply that the GOP must solve the law-and-order problem...
...unlikely that Hubert Humphrey's advisers were similarly inclined to cheer. The Vice President has promised to issue a major Viet Nam statement in the near future, but Johnson's more-of-the-same policy makes it difficult for him to say anything that does not either repudiate the President or disappoint those who want to see a swift end to the war. For the time being, he contented himself with a thinly veiled rebuke to his rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, Senator Eugene McCarthy. "Peace talkers are 10?a dozen today," Humphrey said at a dinner...