Word: hearstman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unchained. Goldwater could not even count, it seemed, on the support of the major Republican-leaning newspaper chains. The ten Hearst papers, which endorsed Nixon in 1960, are expected to favor Johnson this year-a prediction confirmed by a Hearstman who sits in the chain's policymaking councils. Scripps-Howard's 17 papers, which also backed Nixon last time, haven't yet had their say. But in conversation last week President Jack R. Howard dropped a broad hint. "We endorsed Johnson as the Democratic nominee in 1960," he said, "because many of the things he stood...