Word: cooke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...election based on popular vote. Recounts, absentee ballots, and other less legitimate vote juggling in close precincts would keep an election in doubt for months. The Electoral College isn't perfect, but it's usually decisive. And if it fails, I'd rather trust Congress than Cook County...
...sometimes cook Brian meals right up here in the room, when he's too tired to go out at night. Then we sit down on the bed and watch television for the rest of the night, or I will go down to the White Tower and bring back a few hamburgers. He's a very healthy fellow and eats a lot," said Quirm...
...from one party and a presidential candidate from another. Particularly in the South and West, Richard Nixon's coattails were not very long or strong. Generally, the Republicans tended to be better financed or better organized, and this helped them especially in Ohio and Colorado. In Kentucky, Republican Judge Cook outspent Democrat Katherine Peden by well over 2 to 1, but had a tough time defeating the only woman running for the U.S. Senate this year...
...Frank Carlson's Republican seat. Author of a Food-for-Peace amendment that now sends U.S. farmers as technical advisers abroad, Nixon-back-er Dole easily beat out Democratic Candidate William I. Robinson, a Wichita lawyer. Kentucky. As chief executive officer of Jefferson County (Louisville), Republican Marlow W. Cook, 42, was prepared for advancement. His hard-line policy on Viet Nam and tough stand on riots appealed to Kentucky voters more than the moderately liberal philosophy of his Democratic opponent, former Kentucky Commissioner of Commerce Katherine G. Peden, only woman member of the Kerner Commission on Civil Disorders...
...ILLINOIS. Statewide races are usually tests between Democratic Chicago and Republican downstate Illinois, but this year the G.O.P. had a contender who could hold his own in the city: Cook County Board President Richard Ogilvie, 45, who won his current position and a previous term as Cook County Sheriff in Mayor Daley's Democratic fiefdom. A World War II tank commander, whose facial injuries left him with a masklike expression, Ogilvie earned fame as a Mafia-busting U.S. special investigator, a fact that helped him win against the hard law-and-order line of Democratic Incumbent Governor Samuel Shapiro...