Word: louie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...personalities and state-level disputes weighed at least as heavily as national politics. Thus in Kentucky, where voters could have voted a straight Republican ticket with the flick of a single voting-machine lever, not enough did. The result was that while Nixon was winning handily, Republican Senatorial Candidate Louie B. Nunn was losing a seat that had traditionally been Republican. Whatever patterns existed seemed in conflict with one another. Most of the Democrats who won surprising victories?such as Floyd K. Haskell in Colorado, Joseph R. Biden Jr. in Delaware, Dick Clark in Iowa and William D. Hathaway...
...handy one during his successful campaign for the Senate seat vacated by Republican John Sherman Cooper. As state senate majority leader, Huddleston helped repeal a 5% sales tax on food items that Kentuckians vigorously resented; the tax, as it happened, had been raised by his opponent, former Governor Louie B. Nunn (no kin to Georgia's new Senator Sam Nunn). Huddleston labeled Oct. 1, when the tax repeal on food items took effect, as "Dee-day" and reminded voters to "dee-duct" part of the cost of bread, milk and other essential items...
Nixon walked away with 60 per cent of Kentucky's popular vote, but his coattails were too short the former Governor Louie B. Nunn, who was edged by Democrat Walter Huddleston in a close race for the Senate seat of retiring John Sherman Cooper...
...incumbent Democratic Governor, Senator or Congressman has come out for Nixon (whatever their private reservations about McGovern), but several mayors have, including Frank Rizzo of Philadelphia, David Kennedy of Miami, Louie Welch of Houston and Beverly Briley of Nashville...
Actually, Brown's discovery of Gleichenhaus was not exactly serendipitous. Brown, the son of a longtime politician, retired from the chicken business in part because he wanted to become the Democratic candidate for Senator from Kentucky this fall, but then former Republican Governor Louie Nunn was nominated for the Senate, and Brown decided that maybe he would wait until 1974. He needed something to do meanwhile, an activity that would still leave him time for political jobs like organizing the telethon that netted more than $2,000,000 for the Democratic National Committee last month. Last August, accordingly...