Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know some of you have been through defeats, as I have, and had your hearts broken. It has been said that a great philosophy is not won without defeat. But a great philosophy is always won without fear...
...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...
Were the Democrats about to pull off an upset that would dwarf even Harry Truman's defeat of Thomas Dewey exactly 20 years earlier? For the pessimists in Nixon's camp, there were portents aplenty. The usually reliable New York Daily News straw poll gave Humphrey a 3.3-point lead in New York. California, once thought to be so secure for the G.O.P. that Nixon's strategists wondered why Humphrey was wasting so much time there, suddenly turned into a neck-and-neck race, with the Los Angeles Times State Poll giving Nixon a bare one-point...
...breed, carped in 1960. Yet Humphrey could hit hard and often-as he did in the closing weeks of the 1968 campaign. Despite his revilement by dis. sident Democrats, there is no reason why Humphrey should not remain a major figure in the Democratic Party. Still, his defeat marks an exit-the exit of a style, of a certain brand of liberalism, which seems about to be replaced, though by what is far from clear...
Despite his defeat, Edmund Muskie emerged as one of the most personable and articulate major finds of national politics since John F. Kennedy. His relaxed campaigning manner, understated Yankee humor and forthrightness in dealing with the issues won the respect of many voters who had barely heard of him only a month or two ago. In many districts, Humphrey probably slid in on Muskie's coattails; Muskie obviously could provide much of the leadership of the Democratic Party during the next four years. He faces a reelection race for the Senate in 1970, but in 1972 will surely...