Word: lindsays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...officialdom: "Lindsay and Rockefeller drive more people out of New York than anyone by acting like little schoolboys investigating one another...
...church. They're robbers. I can pray at home, and He'll hear me just the same, and I don't have to pay for it." Politics? "I have no hope in elections. I've written to Nixon, Rockefeller and Lindsay. They all say they can't do anything. I don't trust nobody." The future? "If things don't shape up, my children won't live for it. Society will kill them and put them in bondage too, and they won't be able to move either." Summing...
...least likely to embark on war or some other hazardous undertaking. They are a bit less racially prejudiced when they vote, a bit more internationally minded. Their response to charisma is apparently overrated. Younger women may jump and squeal, older women may gush over a candidate like John Lindsay; but once they go to vote, they are less susceptible to their emotions. It was not the glamorous ex-PT boat commander, John F. Kennedy, who won the bulk of the women's vote in 1960. More than 50% of women preferred Richard Nixon. "You didn't find...
Jealousy. What should she look like? What if she were, say, as sexy as John Lindsay, or if, like some male politicians, she trailed a reputation for promiscuity? Mature good looks might help, as with a man. But obviously, as Michigan's Congresswoman Martha Griffiths notes, "you couldn't elect a woman just because she's stunning looking. It is some help, in fact, to a woman politician not to look too attractive. One of the things she cannot arouse is jealousy among other women." And it seems likely that a rumor of philandering would damage...
...these first two weeks. While his chances of taking the nomination are still dim, McGovern is now the leading candidate on the left side of the Democratic spectrum. Ignoring Florida, McGovern devoted almost all of his time to New Hampshire, achieving his impressive 37 per cent there. John Lindsay spent all of his time in Florida in hopes of the big vote which would launch his candidacy. He failed. Despite all the money he spent (estimates range upward from $300,000) he took 6 per cent, only narrowly outpolling McGovern. Lindsay, McGovern and all the other candidates will...