Word: mate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...point, the write-in campaign for Bobby as the President's November running mate had threatened to embarrass Johnson seriously. It also stirred up a beehive of rumors about how Lyndon and Bobby were feuding and were no longer even on speaking terms...
...there was some flame amid the smoke. Johnson and Bobby have never been cronies. Both are sensitive, stubborn, suspicious men. Bobby did not want Johnson to be his brother's running mate in 1960, advised against it, and did not care if Lyndon knew how he felt. After becoming Vice President, Johnson sank into the sort of semiobscurity traditional to holders of that post, and the standard gibe at New Frontier cocktail parties was: "Whatever happened to Lyndon?" Before President Kennedy's death, there was also a lot of talk about a "Dump Johnson" campaign. Through...
...there is little question that Bobby is tempted by the idea of being Vice President, and would like to keep open all the avenues to the job. At the same time, President Johnson has every intention of naming his own running mate -and he will do just that at the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City next August...
...Democrats I don't think voting for Bobby Kennedy is a bad idea. The Attorney General and I are old friends. I have a great deal of respect for him." Goldwater knows that the more pressure the New Hampshire primary puts on President Johnson to make Kennedy his running-mate, the better his own Southern drawing power will look to delegates at the San Franciso convention...
...this smooth transition is isolation from the world outside the picture window. "The steady one marries is so much one's half that one hardly needs anybody else. Every problem, every ambition has been shared for so long that one is terribly dependent on one's mate. The extent to which successful American marriages succeed never fails to hit me when I watch grandparents behaving like honeymooners, always together, holding hands and cooing. There are, of course, those who divorce, but I suspect that the high rate of divorce in America comes from the tremendous expectation placed...