Word: gop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first morning of the Convention, for example,they cheered enthusiastically when John Wayne said he wants his daughter to be proud of his country's fighting men. They did not cheer at all when Senator Jacob Javits said the GOP must solve the law-and-order problem by "reconciliation" rather than "repression." Javits was going too far. What he should have said to suit this Convention is simply that the GOP must solve the law-and-order problem...
...America should rethink its role in world affairs, although the usual lip service is paid to the need for a change. There has been a refusal to admit that the next Administration must infuse billions of dollars into our cities to accomplish what the platform rhetoric claims the GOP wants to accomplish...
Ignoring for a moment the plethora of polls and columnists' guesses, the chances of the delegates ever getting around to a second ballot are historically unlikely. The last time it happened at a GOP convention was 1948, when it took Governor Dewey three ballots to defeat Harold Stassen and Robert A. Taft...
...GOP voters failed to manifest any significant opposition to Richard Nixon's Presidential steamroller. With about 57 per cent of the votes recorded, Nixon had 71 per cent to 22 per cent for Governor Ronald Reagan, 7 per cent for Governor Nelson Rockefeller, and 1 per cent for former Governor Harold Stassen...
About 15 per cent of the Republicans voting in today's primary crossed over to vote for Branigin and McCarthy. Kennedy tried to discourage GOP crossovers. Branigin's Republican votes came primarily from lower and lower-middle class voters. McCarthy's crossover votes came from middle and upper-class voters in suburban and university communities...