Word: mate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lindsay, the marriage could be equally convenient. Though the Liberal Party has only 62,794 registered members in the city, it has polled more than 400,000 votes-a potentially decisive bloc in a close mayoralty race. Lindsay promptly chose as his running mate, for the post of City Council President, Dr. Timothy Costello, 49, the Liberal Party's state chairman and a professor of psychology and management at New York University's graduate business school...
This mutual lack of admiration was never more obvious than in the way that Johnson handled Bobby's aspira tions to be his vice-presidential running mate, and it is in recounting that incident that White's book strikes most of its sparks. With Bobby-for-Vice-President trial balloons going up all over the country, the President in late July 1964 summoned the Attorney General to the White House. Versions differ, more in tone than detail, as to just what happened, and White gives both sides...
...quintet of improper Victorians who, along with two Creole friends, are packed off from Jamaica to be properly educated in England. En route they are inadvertently abducted when their ship is hijacked and they wander aboard the pirate vessel, manned by a dissolute captain (Anthony Quinn), his raffish mate (James Coburn) and a crew of inept, superstitious ruffians...
...only venture into domestic politics in recent years, Bundy got gored-but good. Self-confident as ever, he decided to try to untangle the messy brawl for the 1964 Democratic vice-presidential nomination. First he told Lyndon that he thought Bobby Kennedy would make a fine running mate, was naive enough to suggest that the two might work well together. After Lyndon thumbed Bobby down for the job, Bundy called Bobby and urged him to announce that he had voluntarily withdrawn from the running. That only made Bobby mad. "I'm afraid he hasn't been a very...
...school after one year, became a city garbage-truck driver at $30 a week. He worked his way up to the $25,000-a-year job of sanitation commissioner. It was from that post that Bob Wagner, in 1961, appointed him deputy mayor, then picked him as a running mate. In New York, the city council president is something like a vice president. What Wagner mainly wanted was a No. 2 man who would take on some of the unpleasant chores that the mayor himself was either unwilling, or politically unable, to undertake...