Word: mate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John F. Kennedy, during his 1960 pre-convention campaign, turned Veep playing from an inexact art into a high science; he had everyone from Herschel Loveless (Iowa) to George Docking (Kansas) to Edmund ("Pat") Brown (California) to Henry M. ("Scoop") Jackson (Washington) thinking they might be his running mate. And in so promoting the possibilities, he won a fair number of delegate votes from their states...
Predictably, there were instant rumors that Ev Dirksen would become Goldwater's vice-presidential running mate. But Ev is 68 years old and ailing with an ulcer. More important, he loves his role in the Senate, and only hours after the Illinois caucus, Dirksen himself scotched the stories that he would like to be Vice President...
...Central Committee. At the same time, a police roundup of other critics of the regime seemed imminent. Missing from their homes last week were Ferhat Abbas, onetime F.L.N. chief and former president of the National Assembly, and Mohammed Boudiaf, a former Politburo member. Another former Ben Bella prison mate, ex-Vice Premier Rabah Bitat, was reported under house arrest...
...quarters inches wide), the Argument Settler is a useful gadget to carry around for consultation when you want to impress your friends or even take a little of their hard cash betting on such questions as: "Who ran for President with Adlai E. Stevenson as his vice-presidential running mate-and won!" "Which two-term Presidents kept the same Vice Presidents through both terms?" "Which Governor of what state belongs to a party other than the Democratic or Republican?" "Which four Presidents ran as Democratic Republicans?" "Who were Garret...
There was, and still is, talk that Lyndon Johnson might want Bobby to be his running mate this year. But that talk blows hot and cold-mostly cold. Johnson has not discussed the possibility with Bobby, and Bobby, who never was an intimate of the President, has not broached...