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...loser as well as the winner, however, must continue to "play the game of politics." Nixon continued...
...anomalies of this campaign that Richard Nixon, with an almost Lyndonesque thirst for "consensus," seems to have slighted those other battles. According to every indicator, the President now stands on the threshold of a personal triumph. The "born loser" of the early 1960s seems within reach of an overwhelming political victory: even millions of Democrats to whom he was once a partisan pariah will be pulling Republican levers. But Nixon, the loyal party man who owed so much to Republican Party workers down the line, now seems unwilling to share that popularity with his colleagues. Largely as a result...
...Elect the President. For it was Nixon himself, a boring heavy-handed politician--a man who conveys all the warmth and personality of an armadillo--who ended the 1960s fling with charismatic politics. His election symbolized the revenge of the unbeautiful. Richard Nixon, bless his heart, was a loser...
...Because the West German constitution made no provision for such a situation, the only way the Chancellor could bring about an election was to call for a vote of confidence-and deliberately arrange to lose it. Barzel did not fail to use the opportunity to depict Brandt as a loser whose policies had been repudiated...
...which they were entitled. Moreover, after the Humphrey Muskie ticket was nominated, black politicians became the neglected step-children of the campaign, getting only the last-pickings of campaign resources and positions, and having no say in major decision-making. Perhaps worst of all, blacks had ridden a loser in '68, in trying their political future of Plubert Humphrey. For the next four years the critical domestic power of the Presidency would be in the hands of Richard Nixon, a man who owed them nothing and know...