Word: kuchel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Administration. Robert McNamara and Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes are mentioned interchangeably for the departments of Transportation and of Housing and Urban Development. Oklahoma Senator Fred Harris is being considered for Agriculture or Interior along with North Dakota's Democratic Governor William Guy. California's Republican Senator Thomas Kuchel is also a possibility for Agriculture. A Humphrey Cabinet would almost certainly contain Republicans, and might include a woman, perhaps Patricia Roberts Harris, former Ambassador to Luxembourg...
Rafferty himself did not seem worried. He came from behind in both his 1962 campaign and this year's primary race against Kuchel. Besides, he has little use for polls. "The pollsters in California are flagrant liars," he storms. "Their polls are phony, stupid and rigged." They are nothing of the sort, but Rafferty may not be entirely unjustified in ignoring their September samplings. In California, the nation's most populous state and growing more so at the rate of 1,200 people a day, it is a commonplace that everything can change in 24 hours...
...this year, grass-roots revolts have shelved Senators Frank Lausche of Ohio and Thomas Kuchel of California. Now a similar syndrome threatens Oklahoma Senator Mike Monroney, 66, a 30-year Capitol Hill veteran and his state's senior member of Congress...
While the election clearly marked a step to the right within the state party, Tommy Kuchel, 57, had also brought trouble on himself. In his 16 years in the Senate, Kuchel, appointed by Earl Warren in 1952 to fill out Richard Nixon's unexpired term, had entrenched himself as minority whip. With his bland, litigious mind, the Californian found a congenial environment in the clubbish Senate, but he was never very careful about looking after his political fences at home, where he was often more popular with Democrats than with Republicans. Nor did his refusal to support the campaigns...
Throughout this spring's primary campaign, Kuchel ignored his advisers' counsel to abandon his long-winded, carefully qualified political statements and serve up hard answers. By contrast, Rafferty waged purple war against the "four modern deadly sins of violence, pornography, drugs and lawlessness" and demanded that the nation "take the handcuffs off our military people." In November, Rafferty will face Democratic Nominee Alan Cranston, a liberal and former state controller, who is slightly favored in the race...