Word: gop
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years ago, he graduated from high school when he was 15 and got his law degree seven years later. In 1938, at the age of 31, he was elected governor of his state, the youngest man ever to do so. In 1940 he gave the keynote address at the GOP national convention. He served two and one half terms before going on active duty in the Pacific. After the war he returned to public life and was one of the first to use the strategy that Nixon, Carter, Reagan, and perhaps Mondale have used so effectively. He traveled constantly, speaking...
...first and most successful drive for the White House he covered 160,000 miles and 40 states in 18 months before the GOP convention. But the Republicans were not to recapture the White House for another four years so the field was crowded. He won only the Wisconsin and Nebraska primaries but his delegates split the party which went to the convention with the nomination still in doubt. Ohio Sen. Robert A. Taft offered him the second spot on the ticket in exchange for his delegates but Stassen refused and forced a second and third ballot. But before the third...
...Hill. Speaker of the House Thomas P. O'Neill, halls from Cambridge. Mass It is no accident either that he's a Democrat, because there essentially is no Republican party in the city (of the five state legislative races covering Cambridge last fall, only one was contested by a GOP candidate who got drubbed) And it is no mere whim of fate that he is a successful pol, because the city has a grand tradition of training aspiring officeholders with good old fashioned street corner, rough and tumble politics...
...pursue them Reagan's policy problems have also worsened. His depression-high unemployment and his record budget deficits contributed first to Republican losses in November's election, then to loyalty losses in Congress. The extent to which Reagan's base has eroded was demonstrated late last month, when 21 GOP senators--a coalition which backed the White House's drastic budget measures two springs ago--ignored the threat of a Reagan veto and supported a compromise proposal...
...youngster began tagging along at any GOP functions he could get into. In 1976, he supervised the township youth campaign for a U.S. Congressional candidate. Elliott's man lost but took Bremen by a wider margin than he received in his home township. "The first big break," the senior recalls with mock seriousness...