Word: mate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...using Running Mate Spiro Agnew to do most of the tough talking on the gut issue, Nixon has managed to strike an aloof stance. This tactic may well win the Republican ticket a good number of votes, but it could also inflict incalculable moral damage upon...
...Rubber Stamp. Increasingly, Humphrey's lanky, wryly humorous running mate, Maine Senator Edmund S. Muskie, appeared to be assuming the role of healer for a fractured party. Talking to newsmen at his summer home in Kennebunk Beach, Me., he emphasized that Humphrey "doesn't want a rubber stamp or a carbon copy of himself" for a Vice President. Accordingly, he staked out positions slightly to the left of Humphrey's on at least two important issues. Referring to the conduct of Chicago's police, he noted that "a lot of innocent people were hurt." On Viet...
Nixon's running mate had apparently not got the word. At first, Spiro Agnew faulted the police for "overreacting." Then, in an intemperate off-the-cuff tirade before the Young Republicans in York, Pa., he did an about-face and said that the whole business, together with campus revolts, had been largely inspired by Communists and "fellow travelers." The Marylander confided that he had heard "through channels" that demonstrators in Chicago had inserted razor blades in their shoes to kick the cops. All that the "hippies and yippies" can do, he said, is "lay down in a park...
...opportunity to sneer at "pseudo-intellectuals" and the "leftwing liberal press." ("There are more of us than there are of them.") This week he will take his campaign to Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin and Missouri, stopping off in Washington, D.C., to announce his choice for a vice-presidential running mate. The man most frequently mentioned: the irrepressible A. B. ("Happy") Chandler, 70, former Kentucky Governor (1935-39 and 1955-59) and Senator (1939-45) and onetime commissioner of baseball...
...first three choices for committee assignments. "They tell me that Lyndon trades apples for orchards every day," Muskie said ruefully. Johnson later came to appreciate Muskie as a thorough craftsman who approached his work with quiet diplomacy. In 1964, Johnson even seriously considered naming Muskie as his running mate...