Word: hartkee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Senator Vance Hartke (D.-Ind.) announced yesterday that he was withdrawing from the race for the Democratic presidential nomination He endorsed the candidacy of Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (D.-Minn.).
Speaking in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Hartke said he would not contest any more primaries, but would work for Humphrey.
Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty, Indiana Senator Vance Hartke and House Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills, a late-starting write-in entry, drew a total of 13% of the vote and little encouragement. On the Republican side, Congressmen Paul McCloskey (20%) and John Ashbrook (10%), attacking the President from...
Actually, the second final poll was rushed to meet a deadline, and depth questions were not included. The first final, as a result, came closer to the actual outcome. It was only one point off Muskie's 48% vote total, off six on McGovern's 37%, two points...
...five minutes worth of sound truck jibber. "Vance Hartke, author of such-and-such Vance Hartke, champion of civil rights. Vance Hartke, friend of the veteran," and so on. The name is strange to begin with, and upon repetition it starts to sound like a call to arms: vance hartkee' The senator arrived with his chesterfield coat, one wife and three of ten kids, two of whom seemed absorbed in a 7-up. The Hartke people all wore styrofoam skimmers and balloons, but the Senator seemed annoyed when one of the nats was put on his own head...