Word: gilligans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When he returned last week from a three-week postconvention holiday on the French Riviera, Gene McCarthy said that he would now devote his efforts to raising funds for such antiwar Senate candidates as Oregon's Wayne Morse, Arkansas' J. William Fulbright, and Ohio's John Gilligan. McCarthy has requested half an hour on television next week, and conceivably may endorse Humphrey at that time. Yet his support, like that of other disenchanted dissidents, may be so tepid as to be valueless...
Unity and leadership is badly needed by both the liberals and the party itself. If the new leadership is liberal, they can probably have the party. Party senatorial nominee John Gilligan who gave up labor support rather than make a pre-convention endorsement of Humphrey will be swept under in the Nixon landslide. Young liberals like Dick Celeste of Cleveland formerly of the Peace Corps are hoping to build "a tangible issue orientation" within the party. From that base they might work out to local and then state-wide candidate contests. Gilligan, U.S. Rep. Charles Vanik, former astronaut John Glenn...
Humphrey's apprehension over volatile Democratic loyalties on the eve of Chicago prompted him to provoke an ill-advised skirmish within the Ohio delegation last week. Humphrey operatives, irritated because Democratic Senatorial Can didate John J. Gilligan had not yet endorsed the Vice President, insisted upon a showdown caucus. Also, Humphrey wrote a letter to an A.F.L.-C.I.O. leader suggesting that Gilligan be pressured into making an endorsement. Immediately, union campaign contributions were withdrawn. In an angry caucus last week, Humphrey, who had counted on at least 100 of Ohio's 115 delegate votes, received only...
...Gilligan indefatigably used television, getting support from the A.F.L.-C.I.O...
COPE, which assessed its 800,000 members an extra nickel a month. Lausche addressed Republican-oriented partisans at Rotary Clubs and other limited gatherings. When the ballots were counted, Gilligan had 560,980 to Lausche's 435,367 in a thumping Democratic primary vote. Now Gilligan faces Attorney General William B. Saxbe, 51, a tobacco-chewing G.O.P. professional who commands a wide moderate following and has played golf with his defeated friend, Frank Lausche...