Word: closing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pictures on this page introduce the writers, researchers, reporters and editors of TIME'S Nation section. The main part of their Election Day job did not begin until after the polls started to close. Then, as on-the-spot reports were filed by TIME correspondents across the country, Nation staff members wound up the demanding, detailed coverage of the campaign by working around the clock. On the longest night of their year, they were assisted by colleagues from other sections, including Senior Editors Jesse Birnbaum, Champ Clark, Marshall Loeb and Peter Martin, and Associate Editors Leon Jaroff, Robert Jones...
...appeared at midday before hardy workers who had stayed through the night at the Waldorf and informed them that he had just been on the phone with Humphrey. One of the things he told the Vice President, he said, was that "I know how it is to lose a close one." With a pledge to Americans that he would seek to "bring us together," he departed for Key Biscayne, Fla., and three days of recuperation from the campaign's rigors...
...conduct of the office. At the beginning of his campaign, Nixon held a seemingly unassailable lead. By the time Illinois' 26 electoral votes put him over the 270 mark, it was clear that his lead had been whittled almost to the vanishing point, and that he had come close to the most bitter defeat of his career...
What had kept him from the major, decisive victory that had been so widely (and perhaps too optimistically) expected by many of his followers? In addition to his choice of Maryland's inept Governor Spiro Agnew as his running mate, it was probably his closed, negative campaign. That, and a personality that has simply never come close to captivating the U.S. voter. Nixon was so far in front that his overriding concern was to avoid a serious error-hardly the sort of strategy designed to fire imaginations. But it can also be argued that the Democrats-the majority party...
...industrial states, rallying the once indifferent blacks, bringing antiwar dissidents back into the fold after they had sulked for a suitable time. When the vote tallying began, it swiftly became apparent that the Vice President had scored enough of a comeback to make the election as breathtakingly close as the 1960 cliffhanger. With more than 92% of the total popular vote counted, in fact, Nixon's plurality was fewer than 250,000 votes out of 68 million (v. Kennedy's 119,000 out of 69 million...