Word: lastly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seemingly insoluble problems the nation faces. Kennedy used the word leadership 17 times in a recent speech in Philadelphia. On the Republican side, former Texas Governor and Nixon Treasury Secretary Connally managed to use the word five times in a 4½-minute television commercial that was aired last week across the nation on CBS at a cost...
...length. The spot was one of the earliest national television advertisements ever purchased for a presidential race. But network executives have had to refuse to sell larger chunks of time to Reagan and Carter, saying that they do not want to give candidates access to the nets until 1980. Last week the Carter-Mondale Committee filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission, charging the networks with denying them reasonable access to air time...
...proud of Joe because he is a politician and I'm proud that I'm a politician." Thus Senator Howard Baker, 53, sounded one of his main campaign themes last week at a dinner given by New York's Nassau County Republican Chairman Joseph Margiotta. Hands in his pockets, exuding an easy sincerity, the Senate minority leader gave an apt demonstration of the down-home-style politics that he hopes will carry him to the presidency. Last week he became the ninth Republican to declare his candidacy...
...Carter speechwriter believes there was more of an internal metamorphosis at Camp David last summer than many understood. Carter has a deeper historical perspective, this aide says, a special feeling for the office. "I'm honestly persuaded now that he can be a President," says another of Carter's advisers. "If he could just start at the beginning with what he has learned in these past 34 months, he would be a very good President...
...explained. Ike, in turn, described Mamie as "my invaluable, indispensable but publicly inarticulate lifelong partner." In later years, Mamie responded to women's liberation by saying: "I never knew what a woman would want to be liberated from." A lifetime of stern inner discipline and outward amiability ended last week when Mamie died at 82 after a stroke...