Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What a tragedy that the capable political career of Richard Nixon must now come to an end. Mr. Nixon would have brought greatness to the governorship of California-and it would have given us another chance to vote him into the presidency of the U.S. This man has more patriotism, more devotion to his fellow Americans, per square inch, than most of us have to our own egos...
...took more sorrow to make Eleanor become Eleanor. In 1921 Franklin was stricken with paralytic polio. She nursed her husband, fought off his mother's inclination to keep him an invalid at the family home in Hyde Park. She also encouraged Franklin to seek the governorship of New York, which he won in 1928. She was less than enthusiastic about his pushing on to the presidency, but once he decided to run, she worked hard...
...CRIMSON were, of course, in bad taste. But we have come to expect as much of the CRIMSON and its angry, sophomore, doctrinaire liberalism. It is easy indeed to kick a man when he is down, to say that because he last election for the governorship of California is (a predominantly Democratic state), and lost election to the Presidency of the United States by 113,000 votes out of a total 68,339,000, that he never did anything right in his life. But it easier still to point out that Mr. Nixon has done quite a few things right...
...political demise was not at all to "kick him when he was down," but to explain as best I could how he got down there. The very fact that a man could lose the national election in 1960 and then be unable two years later to win the governorship in his own battiwick seemed to me a phenomenon worth explaining. Moreover, I considered it unfortunate that meet commentaries on Nixon's defeat were either disguised gloating or the kind of wrong-headed on comium Mr. Von Salzen has written...
...neither of the candidates can clearly claim the governorship by Jan. 3, Lt. Gov.-Elect Francis X. Bellotti will become acting governor upon taking office. Bellotti is a Democrat...