Word: mate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hard-fought and suspenseful campaign of 1960, two rounds are already over-and both have gone to Richard Nixon. Round One was the much-tele vised convention process; polls show that Nixon's acceptance speech and his choice of Henry Cabot Lodge as a running mate have gone over with the public a lot better than Kennedy's speech (which swiped at Nixon) and his tactical choice of Lyndon Johnson. Round Two is the dead-end session of Congress, which is creaking toward adjournment. There Kennedy met with a nightmarish series of grim surprises and jolting defeats...
Senate Majority Leader Johnson had scheduled the post-convention session as part of his pre-convention strategy for trying to wrest the presidential nomination away from Kennedy. Once Kennedy got the nomination and tabbed Johnson as his running mate, he had hopes of wringing political gains out of the session by pushing through vote-catching welfare measures. But Kennedy's political gains from the session came to zero: no housing bill, no aid-to-education bill, modest minimum-wage and medical-care bills quite unlike those he had advocated, no sign whatever of the farm bill he promised...
...sharp contrast to Johnson, Nixon's running mate, Henry Cabot Lodge, has proved to be an underrated asset because of the favorable TV image he has projected over the years, talking back to the Russians in U.N. debates. A recent Gallup poll, designed to measure something called the "enthusiasm quotient." found that 45% of the people polled were "highly favorable" to Lodge, and only 30% felt that way about Johnson...
Richard Nixon was already off and running. Having vowed to campaign in all of the 50 states, he started with the farthest first. After a strategy meeting in Newport, R.I. with vacationing President Eisenhower and Running Mate Henry Cabot Lodge early in the week, Nixon and Wife Pat headed west. At a Reno airport welcome, Nixon drew cheers from the crowd by pointing out that Pat, born in nearby Ely, Nev., was wearing a pin that boasted. "I'm from Nevada" (someone had slipped it to her two minutes before). Campaigning smoothly herself, Pat got photographed kissing an Indian...
...headline-making investigations of the Communist conspiracy in Government and his unmasking of Alger Hiss catapulted him to national fame and a Senate seat in 1950. Two years later, as one of the earliest and most enthusiastic ad mirers of Dwight Eisenhower, Nixon became Ike's running mate. In six crammed years, Dick Nixon rose from complete obscurity to become, at 40, the youngest Vice President since John Breckinridge (of the Buchanan Administration) and Ike's able right-hand...