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Smallest Since Wilson. The vote pattern underscored yet again the fragmented condition of American politics. Negroes were almost unanimous for Humphrey, showing no faith whatever in Nixon's promise to give blacks "a piece of the action." The Northeast was Humphrey country, with the important exception of New Jersey, where Governor Richard Hughes blamed what he termed Wallace's "hate vote" for the narrow Democratic defeat. Nixon and Wallace divided the South, except for Texas. Nixon dominated most of the Midwestern and Western states. Historically, there is nothing too unusual about minority Presidents. In the 37 elections since...
Forgotten Strengths. Chosen to assure Nixon Southern support at Miami Beach, Agnew was assigned the task of appealing to the potential Wallace vote. He began the drive with the standard spiel on law and order, but as the weeks passed, he grew progressively more abrasive. At times, except for the accent, he might have been mistaken for Wallace himself, making use of such Wallace-like expressions as "phony intellectual." In the end, though Agnew may have hurt Nixon overall, he appears to have helped him win critically important Border states...
...pill are illegal), and 85 per 1,000 in Sweden. Colorado's law does not spell out residence requirements, but legal formalities ensure that abortions after rape or incest will be performed only on residents, and Colorado General Hospital has decided not to abort out-of-state patients "except for fetal indications" ?meaning that the child is expected to be malformed...
...that he allowed his son to use LSD in their digs at the university. "Had I forbidden him to take trips in the flat," the bishop writes, "he would no doubt have gone out with friends when he wanted to drop acid. And then I would have accomplished nothing except alienation." By the time Pike returned to the U.S., he was convinced that the gap between them had been conquered. He was stunned when a priest interrupted evensong services at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco to tell Pike that his son had been found dead in a Manhattan hotel room...
...foreign policy, Goodwin said that America has none except the "containment of Russia and China, and the survival of Israel." He added that Americans need something to look to larger than themselves and that this could be provided by their finding a role in the world...