Word: indiana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like competing gypsies, each of the rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination shuffled the tarot cards of Indiana's primary-election results last week to suit his own purpose, and each found consolation in his readings...
...kind of war you must wage when you are not even allowed to dirty your hands. But that is what we were told to do. Keep it clean for Gene. The staff was cynical, but serious about it. Indiana was confused. Its primary had never before attracted such national attention. Suddenly crowds of students had made its capital a convention city without a convention. The papers were already misrepresenting the Senator. The cops would have loved to bust his kids...
...joined the campaign in hopes of future political gain. The majority brought only the committed dedication that enabled them to survive on a salary of seven dollars a day. They were punctilious in disciplining themselves. Those who dated interracially were asked not to wear McCarthy buttons, not in Indiana. Beer wasn't allowed at parties for the volunteers. No one wanted the police to point out a minor drinking, however innocently...
...same time, we were developing a certain contemptuousness for Kennedy's canvassers. Many of them had been attracted by ads offering a free weekend in Indiana. Some, we knew, received daily meal allowances; others, it was rumored, were being paid outright. Often they were still in high school. We derided the tactlessness of Bobby's teeny-boppers. Of course, they tried to adopt our own air of self-sacrifice. It was generally unsuccessful. One giggly girl proudly announced that she and her friends would be spending the night in a church. "God must be on our side," she laughed. Well...
...that gave Nixon his largest margin against John Kennedy in 1960. Headed by Ted Sorensen's brother Philip, former Nebraska Lieutenant Governor, Kennedy's team last week was busily imitating McCarthy tactics by dispatching scores of student volunteers to canvass at least 200,000 Democratic households. In Indiana, Bobby's admirers had become dangerously demonstrative. Jostled by crowds in Mishawaka, he banged his upper lip on a car, chipping a front tooth...