Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bliss instituted interminable polls and surveys, built a network of grass-roots organizations, set up a harddriving, get-out-the-vote machine. A bare two years later, the Republicans were so strong again that they recaptured control of both houses of the legislature and every state office except the governorship. Ever since, despite a couple of setbacks, Bliss's Ohio G.O.P. has been one of the most dependable state organizations in the country...
...help feeling a little sorry for Richard M. Nixon. First he lost the presidency, then the governorship of California, and now, after knocking himself out campaigning for a man in whom he never really believed, the prize of becoming Secretary of State has slipped from his grasp. Will the man ever give...
...command of the "15th Army," literally a paper unit preparing a war history. George Patton had already warned his wife, just before the German surrender, that "peace is going to be hell on me." His death in an auto accident only three months after losing the military governorship and only seven months after the armistice may have seemed to him to have come too late rather than too early. "The proper end for the professional soldier," George Patton liked to say, "is a quick death inflicted by the last bullet of the last battle...
What are needed, of course, are not a strong Governor but a strong Governorship. The problem lies with the office, not with the parade of hapless men who have tried to fill it. Fortunately this year's ballot offers the state's voters two opportunities to bolster that office...
Furcolo handily won the governorship in 1956 and 1958-the first person of Italian extraction to win the job. But Foster fizzled in the statehouse, lost a 1960 primary for the Democratic U.S. Senate nomination...