Word: elected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mayor-Elect Lindsay...
...Mayor-elect John Lindsay's victory in New York [Nov. 12] is an important lesson for the Republican Party. For if the G.O.P. expects to become a truly national party again, it is to progressive, liberal candidates of Mr. Lindsay's stature that it must turn. The days of Goldwater have passed. Now Mr. Lindsay must turn all his efforts toward giving New York dynamic, nonpartisan government. He has won, and now he must prove himself, but he cannot do it alone; it is time for those who welcomed his victory to join him in his efforts...
Curiously, the Governor-elect Mills Godwin has abandoned white supremacy altogether, and has even hinted that he might step-up spending for things like education and public services. Godwin's sharp turn away from the seventy-year-old Machine ideology is the most concrete sign of the end of Byrd's leadership...
Virginia may see other political contests in the near future. Senator A. Willis Robertson is 78; Governor-elect Godwin is probably eager to win a Senate seat and currently, all-Democrats from the Byrds to the AFL-CIO are happy with him. The Republicans, if they can recapture the Negro vote, may even be able to win statewide election. There is every possibility, then, that Virginia may send more men to the U.S. Senate in the next five years than it has in the last forty-five...
Once a new Congress is chosen, probably in November 1966, it will be called upon to elect Brazil's next President from a list of candidates acceptable to the revolution...