Word: connors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chance of them entering a state-wide election. With a large number of votes from a state-wide electorate Roosevelt would have tremendous bargaining power. If he doesn't convince the Democrats to take him back -- his campaign has naturally enraged many who fear he might attract potential O'Connor supporters -- he could run in the primary which he helped create and with a fair chance of success...
...streets are Negro, poor. The streets are often crowded with cars as the road system has not kept pace with the increase in population. This is not expensive, nubile Westchester. That is off in Larchmont and Scarsdale. Republican bailiwicks as secure as Eisenhower's Gettysburg farm. Even if O'Connor were vastly imaginative, which to read his programs he is not, he would still not conceive of winning Westchester, so last week, obviously on good advice, he concentrated on the cities...
...With O'Connor during the tour were Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall. Udall came to rage at the pollution in the Hudson ("Why should we have to go out West to canoe?") and at the governor for not cleaning up the river. The politics of the Hudson River pollution are more complicated than anyone involved cares to say, and establishing a control system will be difficult. But believe it -- the river stinks. O'Connor brought reporters to the bank near a ferry landing at Yonkers earlier in the day, and all present sniffed...
Kennedy came to campaign for O'Connor, realizing of course that a Democratic victory without his support would make O'Connor a competitor for party power while a victory with support -- including the help of Kennedy's upstate staff -- would put O'Connor in a subservient role at least until he could construct an Albany-based organization...
Getty Square in Yonkers is in fact a large alley. A thousand people could probably squeeze into it, but the place gets claustrophobic with half that many and it was claustrophic when the O'Connor bandwagon arrived. Around 3:45 p.m., many of those attracted by the sound equipment were school children, some from junior high school, some from elementary school. Perhaps a quarter of the 500 listeners were Negro, and it seemed that half of them were waving small American flags distributed by the Democratic Party...