Word: laws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...majority of voters went for-and against. The trend was obviously conservative, away from the omniscient federalism of the Great Society, toward the decentralized approach espoused by the Republicans and, more vaguely, by Wallace. White voters seemed to be attracted by Nixon's relatively tough stand on the law-and-order issue and leary of Humphrey's rather orthodox liberal approach. Because so little light showed between Nixon and Humphrey on Viet Nam, it is unlikely that the war played a large part in the presidential vote-or, for that matter, in the congressional races. The bombing suspension...
...law-and-order field, he promised to increase spending for police training and equipment, emphasized that "if the conviction rate were doubled in this country, it would do more to eliminate crime than quadrupling of the funds for any governmental war on poverty." He also promised to appoint a new Attorney General who would fight crime with the "kind of aggressive leadership that Ulysses S. Grant brought to the flagging Northern cause in the Civil War," and hinted that his Supreme Court appointees would place less emphasis on the rights of criminal defendants than has the Warren Court. An Activist...
Forgotten Strengths. Chosen to assure Nixon Southern support at Miami Beach, Agnew was assigned the task of appealing to the potential Wallace vote. He began the drive with the standard spiel on law and order, but as the weeks passed, he grew progressively more abrasive. At times, except for the accent, he might have been mistaken for Wallace himself, making use of such Wallace-like expressions as "phony intellectual." In the end, though Agnew may have hurt Nixon overall, he appears to have helped him win critically important Border states...
...Ohio. Law and order is a big issue in Ohio this year, and it helped send Ohio Attorney General William Saxbe, 52, to the Senate. A moderate Republican, Saxbe used the issue handily against Democratic Opponent John J. Gilligan, who had criticized draconian court handling of Cincinnati rioters. Saxbe also promoted jobs, better education, clean air and water, and "our last Viet...
Among the Turnovers. Even in those few districts where seats did change party hands, the results seemed to depend far more on individual personalities and local conditions than on broad national issues?Viet Nam, law and order, inflation, the Negro revolution and the white backlash. In Ohio, for example, Republican Frances P. Bolton was defeated by Democratic Representative Charles A. Vanik. The deciding factor was Mrs. Bolton's age: she is 83, Vanik 55. In Missouri, Democrat James W. Symington, 41, handsome former chief of protocol for the U.S. State Department, took the suburban St. Louis County district that Republican...