Word: gilligans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Making of a Soph. Most effective of all, Gilligan was the first to announce the news of every federal financial grant or industrial contract of benefit to his constituency, whether he had anything to do with it or not. As a loyal supporter of Lyndon Johnson and one of those Democratic freshmen that Johnson would like to make sophomores, Gilligan had plenty to report. Some items: a $750 million defense contract for a local plant, $4.7 million for a housing project, $285,000 to help convert the old Union Station into a museum. For a number of such boons...
Taft does not belittle such blessings. Nor can he match Democrat Gilligan's forceful, witty platform style. So day after day for the last eight months, Taft has plodded through bowling alleys and shopping centers, meeting the voters and doggedly trying to erase the touch of aloofness in his image that he inherited from his father along with a pleasant, bespectacled phiz. "No Taft for four generations," one of his aides observed, "has campaigned like this." Oddly, there is a shortage of clearly defined issues between the adversaries. Though they have exchanged many words over Viet Nam, both support...
Ambassador to Ohio.Instead, the race has developed into a sharp personal conflict. Gilligan calls Taft a "bargain-basement New Dealer," relentlessly derides his opponent's reliance on his name, gibes at the campaign signs that "don't even carry his first name, don't carry the office he seeks, don't say vote, don't say Republican, don't say anything else. They've just got those four gorgeous letters...
Taft charges that Gilligan reached the "height of irresponsibility" in going all the way and then some for L.B.J.'s spending programs. When Gilligan voted against a measure to bar U.S. aid to countries that allow their shipping to enter North Vietnamese ports, Taft said that the vote indicated "approval of trade with North Viet Nam, the very same nation that is daily killing American men." Gilligan called that statement "a rather indelicate way of resorting to the old tool of McCarthyism...
...thing that Taft possesses and Gilligan cannot match is a superefficient personal campaign organization that has divided the district into 15 zones, each with its own headquarters. Taft volunteers have canvassed house to house to dig out potential Taft voters and get them registered. The organization is even using a computer to expedite the footwork, and make sure that each canvasser is used to the best advantage. Each of the 15 zones will have a battery of ten telephones working on election eve and election day to remind the right voters to go to the polls. These old-fashioned precinct...