Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Second to Moscow. Issues were already crackling in the political air last week. In traditionally Republican North Dakota, farm discontent carried the Democratic candidate to a razor's edge victory in a special senatorial election (see Political Notes), a reminder that the farm mess ranks as one of the biggest unresolved domestic issues of 1960. In Washington, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson lured Congress into recessing until early August, leaving major welfare measures-federal aid for schools, housing and medical care-to be legislated in a post-convention atmosphere of partisan thrusts and parries...
...occasion for the North Dakota trip was next week's special election of a new U.S. Senator to fill the seat of the late "Wild Bill" Langer. The contestants-Republican Governor John E. Davis and Democratic Congressman Quentin Burdick-were all but lost in the throng of their supporting casts. Jack Kennedy and Stu Symington got out of town as Nixon arrived, and Nelson Rockefeller, House Republican Leader Charlie Halleck and Senate Campaign Director Barry Goldwater have all taken their turns on the stump...
...South Dakota (11): Symington and Kennedy worth 4^ votes each and Johnson getting the rest...
...been impressed. Johnson noted in Reno, "by the determination of the delegates to make up their own minds. They're resentful of the idea that they're sewed up." Commented South Dakota's big-voiced Governor Ralph Herseth after a whirlwind Johnson visit: "He made no attempt to pressure us or sweep anyone off his feet. It should improve his position with our delegates...
Campaign Roundup (ABC, 3:30-4 p.m.). Beginning today, ABC newsmen around the U.S. will report each Sunday on the attitudes of delegates and plain citizens in their regions. Subject this week: California and South Dakota primaries...