Word: elected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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McGarry hated McGovern with a passion, and needed to re-elect Pell in order to maintain his strength. The day before the election he was already conceding the state to Nixon, but claiming a huge victory for Pell. "Nixon's going to take this state by 35,000 votes," Boss McGarry predicted. "I'm counting on Pell to bring everybody back to the ticket. He's going to win by 40,000 easy...
...himself "the worst administrator of any Episcopal Presiding Bishop in history." Last fortnight his fellow Episcopal bishops got a greater shock in the mail: a letter from Hines outlining his plan to retire as Presiding Bishop in the spring of 1974, after the triennial general convention next fall can elect a successor. Hines is the first Presiding Bishop in the church's history to quit early for reasons other than illness, but he may have good cause to step down. His years in office have been marked by factional dissension, especially over a "'Special Program" which he proposed...
...colleagues. He grumbles through the second volume of his memoirs about the problem of getting good domestics in various countries (house servants are uncooperative in the Soviet Union, nonexistent in the United Kingdom). A deep-seated elitism becomes quickly transparent. Kennan has a commitment to the existence of an elect, not necessarily of the people, but of God, or at least of a natural order that distributes talents unevenly...
...make the personality the hottest issue in the campaign. The welded strategies did not develop McGovern's strengths. In this sense, the Democrats ran a disembodied campaign and a campaign which could not converge in the person of George McGovern made the work of the Committee to Re-Elect the President a good deal easier...
...what to do next he said "Most of them have been working for the Senator since New Hampshire It's been a long road now its over where do we go front here McGovern such a nice guy It's still hard to believe they aren't going to elect...