Word: elected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This extra edition, which started coming off the presses the morning after election, follows the precedent established in 1960 when we published an Election Extra with President-elect John F. Kennedy on the cover. For this issue's cover, Artist Henry Koerner turned political reporter and traveled with President Johnson for several days sketching campaign scenes. His drawings formed a frieze for a characteristic picture of the victory-bound President taken by Staff Photographer Walter Bennett. The whole edition was written, edited and produced by a New York staff of about 140 people working through election night and into...
...themselves, the statistics were impressive enough. But even more impressive was what they meant to coattailclinging Democratic candidates for Congress, governorships and state legislatures. Only ticket splitting of incredible proportions saved moderate Repub licans such as Governor George Romney of Michigan and Governor-elect Daniel Evans of Washington from defeat; despite considerable splitting, New York's Ken Keating, Illinois' Chuck Percy, Oklahoma's Bud Wilkinson went down. In the Senate, Democrats were assured of retaining their lopsided ma- jority of 66 to 34. or even of increasing it. Thanks to Lyndon's sturdy coattails. Democratic gubernatorial...
...found a letter addressed to the "Committee to Elect Goldwater," would your political views determine whether or not you'd mail...
Four hundred stamped envelopes, 100 addressed to each of four committees (Committees to Elect Goldwater, Defeat Goldwater, Re-Elect Johnson, and Defeat Johnson) were left on car windshields and sidewalks in the greater Boston area...
Every two years Massachusetts voters grow disgusted with their Governor and elect a new one. The new one invariably spends his first year repaying campaign debts and favors. At mid-term--straight with the world--he steps courageously forward and advances his legislative program of "reform and progress." The second year is devoted to retreating hurriedly from the program and to acquiring new debts, all in a headlong attempt to stop making enemies. The attempt, which invariably infuriates the voters, always fails. And Massachusetts elects a new Governor, hoping that this time he will be a "strong...