Word: deweyitis
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...radio and TV campaign in a desperate attempt to gain a foothold. Rocky's people bravely explained that the situation paralleled the primary campaign of 1948, when Harold Stassen seemed to have had the state all wrapped up only to lose a last-minute saturation campaign to Tom Dewey...
Most Republican observers doubt that Rockefeller can duplicate Dewey's surprise victory, which was achieved mostly by a trouncing that Dewey gave Stassen in a nationwide radio debate. Lodge need not take any such risk as a debate. And his absence from Oregon apparently works to his advantage in other ways. Explains a top Oregon Republican: "There's the matter of overexposure. That's not something that either Rockefeller or Goldwater can correct, but it's there. The glamour, the mystique, has run thin. Lodge, on the other hand, is the personification of mystique...
...inspiring all Americans to actively espouse resolute, responsible and reverent patriotism"; James Baldwin, Truman Capote, Ralph Ellison, Hans Hofmann, Louis Kahn, Bernard Malamud and John Updike among the 14 architects, painters and writers named to The National Institute of Arts and Letters; former New York Republican Governor Thomas Dewey, 61, in whose honor the 559-mile New York State Thruway will now be known as Dewey Thruway...
...time. In fact, Stassen's name was first entered in a presidential race by some of his friends, while he, then 37, was serving in the Pacific theatre with Admiral Halsey. In 1948 he did make a serious bid on his own, and was the man to beat until Dewey upset him in the Oregon primary. Stassen lost the nomination, and his party lost the election from failing to hold the farm vote. Stassen, three times elected governor of Minnesota (first taking office when only 31), might have held the farm vote and taken his party to the White House...
...Republicans raising campaign funds at 21 Go-Day rallies, it was natural that some orators, considering the kind of week it was, should be critical of Johnson's handling of foreign policy. "We have been insulted, humiliated and held up to scorn!" cried two-time Presidential Candidate Thomas Dewey last week. "We ought to pull up our socks...