Word: lbj
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...where it's at, they said, since most Americans are "unyoung, unpoor and unblack." Street crime and the fear of young protestors are the most pressing issues on the minds of American voters in the 1970's, and politicians who fail to realize this will certainly be defeated. LBJ moderate columnists like John Roche and Evans-Novak beat their centrist drums on behalf of the book, and The Real Majority enjoyed the peculiar American honor of becoming more than a book. Like Portnoy's Complaint, it became an event unto itself...
...McCloskey campaign in New Hampshire is perhaps the most important of the liberal candidates since he alone poses a threat to Nixon's party nomination. Haunted by the spectre of the impact of the McCarthy victory against LBJ in '68, Nixon has decided to revise his schedule so that he will campaign at least three or four days in the state...
...traveled a long way during the sixties. After Port Huron, it went through a left-liberal stage ("Part of the way with LBJ") and quickened its ideological tempo as the American smugness evaporated in Southeast Asia and in the ghettos. By the 1969 convention, the organization was riddled with factions which split over such issues as whether blacks were a colony of the American Empire or a super-exploited part of the working class...
...primary, the liberal and student community flocked enthusiastically to New Hampshire to help McCarthy in his drive to end the war in Vietnam and dump Johnson. With their help he won a major political upset gaining 42.4 per cent of the Democratic vote against LBJ showing just how divided the Democratic Party was over the war issue. McCarthy went on to gather an increasing amount to liberal support--as well as an $11 million dollar campaign fund--to run vigorous campaigns in Massachusetts, Wisconsin, and California...
Everyone was on vacation when LBJ announced that he was stepping down and when Martin Luther King was shot and the cities burned and when the Chicago police busted heads during a convention and when Robert Kennedy was shot and when Woodstock became a household word...