Word: griffins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Obstacle? With those two basic positions stated, the rest of the debate turned on restatements of old positions. Kennedy tossed a low blow by recalling that Grand Dragon William J. Griffin of the Ku Klux Klan had indicated that he was going to vote for Nixon ("I do not suggest in any way that that indicates that Mr. Nixon has the slightest sympathy or involvement . . .") Nixon hedged on answers to questions on nuclear disarmament and control and labor policy by announcing that he would shortly deliver major speeches on these topics...
...Richard Nixon the week's least welcome endorsement came from Tampa Private Eye William J. Griffin, Grand Dragon of the Florida Knights of the Ku Klux Klan...
...Kennedy-hating James Riddle Hoffa announced in Washington that he gave $1,000 to the opponent of one of his two most detested Congressmen: Georgia Democrat Phil Landrum, who, with Michigan's Republican Robert P. Griffin, authored last session's Teamster-haltering labor bill. In Lawrenceville, Ga., Landrum's primary opponent, F. Quill Sammon Jr., denied knowledge of Hoffa's grand offer. Wailed Sammon, trying to wipe off the kiss of death: "If Hoffa does want to help me, that's a heck of a way for him to do it, by saying...
...MURIEL GRIFFIN...
...luster of a courageous, statesmanlike legislator. Yet in his 14 years in the House and Senate, he has never fathered any major legislation. He worked hard on the Senate labor-reform bill (TIME, Sept. 14), but it got so ground up in the congressional mills that the enacted Landrum-Griffin version did not even carry his name (for which he came to be very thankful...