Word: lyndon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lyndon H. LaRouche is an old-schooler, and the piles of literature that bow the card tables of his devoted workers are vintage. Every few days during the Granite State contest, the two-page "Campaign News" would appear in LaRouche offices around the state. The paper proves LaRouche is no squeamish campaigner; "Khomeini Backer to Head Procession in Manchester" screams one headline in the Feb. 21 issue, and who can resist reading on? "Ramsey Clark, the defender of the terrorist Red Brigades and the Baader-Meinof gang in Europe, reportedly will be leading a march on the streets of Manchester...
...DOOR, the private security force checks everyone attending this final statewide rally for Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche Jr., Democrat for President, running the metal detector over their bodies. "We'd prefer you didn't take pictures of the security operation," one guard says, and the request has no escape clause. "People are finally beginning to realize they won't be able to defraud us out of the election--we just don't know how desperate they're going to get," Laura Cohen, a campaign aide says in explanation...
...Lyndon Johnson, who complained that her wide-brimmed hat made her hard to kiss: "That's why I wear...
...Garry Wills wrote in Nixon Agonistes, "that things were giving. That man had not merely lost control of his history, but might never regain it." That feeling permeated the New Hampshire campaign of Eugene McCarthy. Seeing a chance to "change the world, rearrange the world" and drive Lyndon Johnson back to the ranch, hundreds of student supporters invaded the state. Huntley-Brinkley brought Vietnam home every night in living color, and the McCarthy kids knocked on doorfronts to remind New Hampshire that now was the chance to stop it. The Johnson write-in effort functioned in a stupor; McCarthy...
...expectations game as played by the press is hardly new: in 1968, long-shot Eugene McCarthy "beat" President Lyndon Johnson by rolling up 42% of the New Hampshire primary vote to Johnson's mere 49.5%. Four years later, George McGovern "beat" the heavy favorite, Edmund Muskie, in the same state by polling a decisive 37% to Muskie's meager 46%. " 'Unexpected' is one of the words reporters use to cover their mistakes," says Political Columnist Richard Reeves. "Did the voters do something they didn't expect to do on Election Day? Of course not." Adds...