Word: file
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Considering such dedicated workers, such widespread popularity, such pollster and primary election evidences of strength, why is there so much doubt that Henry Cabot Lodge will be the Republican presidential nominee? One reason is that Lodge's popularity with the Republican rank and file-which is the political phenomenon of 1964-is matched by his unpopularity with G.O.P. professionals, the people who go to conventions...
Sometimes I wonder just how lucky we American people can be to have such a splendid man as Mr. Johnson holding the reins of government in steady hands at this awesome time. I'm of the rank-and-file but feel we should all be united in one thing-prayer for his continued health. (MRS.) CAROLINE C. JOHNSON San Jose, Calif...
...There was the obsession with polls. For months, surveys have shown Goldwater's stock down with "rank and file" Republicans and with that elusive voter classified as "independent." This week the Gallup poll reported Lodge favored by 37% of Republicans, Nixon by 28% , Goldwater by 14%, Rockefeller by 9% and Scranton by 4% . Such figures have fooled a lot of people into thinking that Goldwater was through. But no pollster has ever nominated a presidential candidate, and Goldwater has been and remains the favorite of G.O.P. professionals-the people who go to conventions...
...people want to know what we are going to do about the farm bill. Let's get our recommendations up right away.' He came right back and said, 'Mr. President, I don't think we have to consider that. I don't have a file on it. I will look it up, but I think you ought to go tell them if we owe it, we will...
...start, organizing a tough secret police, suppressing all opposition, packing the prisons. Close to 300,000 Paraguayans now live in exile. At Stroessner's Colorado party headquarters in the Asuncion capital, functionaries keep IBM listings on everyone who applies for party membership; there are 400,000 names on file. Stroessner is staunchly antiCommunist, but beyond that he does not concern himself with ideology. When a visitor once suggested that Paraguay needed a first-class public relations man to improve its image abroad, the general replied: "We don't need publicity. We will show them by doing...