Word: directed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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George Wallace hoped that his presence in the 1968 elections would deny any candidate an Electoral College majority, leaving him with the decisive votes to name the next President. Before Election Day, according to the Gallup poll, 66% of the nation favored direct presidential elections. By December, the figure had jumped...
...State Factor. Congress' sudden sympathy for reform reflects that growing public desire for a change. What shape a proposed amendment will finally take is not yet clear, however. Besides the House Judiciary Committee's plan for a direct election, there are also schemes to retain electoral votes in some form. One such plan would divide each state's electoral votes among the candidates according to the popular-vote breakdown. Another would elect members of the Electoral College by local districts...
Witnesses before the committee argued that both the district and proportional approaches would perpetuate some of the worst abuses of the present system. Nonetheless, the direct method faces formidable obstacles. The heavy vote may crystalize opposition to the amendment among rural and traditional Congressmen in the House and Senate-and the amendment needs a two-thirds majority for passage in each body...
...generation apart from Dirksen, 73, and the President favors younger congressional leaders. Nor does Nixon deal with individual legislative barons in the same intensely personal manner that Johnson did. What is he going to do about Dirksen? If the Senator keeps embarrassing him, he could be forced into a direct showdown. A President does not easily lose arguments with his own party. On the other hand, an angered Dirksen can still cause untold amounts of trouble. Therefore, Nixon will most likely try to cool things down. At week's end he invited Dirksen to accompany him to the Kentucky...
PUSEY: I don't see how the faculty can possibly do that. I think that this was a direct threat to the operation of the university, particularly to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, to its properly constituted officers, and I think that if the faculty were not to consider that a serious matter -- it would be a serious matter...