Word: mates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some Democrats wonder why Kennedy has not used his running mate Lyndon Johnson's very effective argument that the Republican charge that the Democrats will "spend the country into bankruptcy" preaches a kind of economic timidity, and that this timidity "downgrades America" much more than Democratic complaints about the fact of falling prestige. The country, Johnson continues is too strong and too wealthy to be "spent into bankruptcy"; Republican timidity merely keeps the nation down...
Although many members expressed dissatisfaction with Kennedy's running mate and some portions of his program, the group framed a statement favoring the Massachusetts Senator, regardless of these "Imperfections...
Into the battleship-grey conference room of the drab Bond Hotel in Hartford, Conn, last week walked Presidential Candidate Richard Nixon, Running Mate Henry Cabot Lodge, and such top campaign lieutenants as Labor Secretary James Mitchell, Attorney General William Rogers and Interior Secretary Fred Seaton. The men took their places around a long table, posed for press photographers. Then aides shooed the newsmen out, the doors closed, the smiles faded, and the Republican campaign team got down to the serious business before it: settling on strategy, tactics and schedules for the last, decisive weeks of the campaign...
...impression of unity, earnestness and respectability. Nixon's acceptance speech went over with the TV audience a lot better than Kennedy's, with its ill-advised rewriting of Lincoln, his "malice for all" gibe at Nixon. Kennedy's choice of Texan Lyndon Johnson as his running mate seemed clever power politics at the time, but failed to stir any enthusiasm in the South, or anywhere else. Cabot Lodge, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, was Nixon's second choice-when Rockefeller would not take the job-but proved a first-rate one, strengthening the ticket...
Moments later Dick Nixon overheard reporters discussing Lodge's statement about Negro Cabinet members. "We talked about that," Nixon volunteered. "My idea would be to appoint the best persons without regard to race, creed or color." Having once more contradicted his running mate, Nixon might have liked to let the matter drop. But reporters, irked by Lodge's condescending manner, kept the controversy alive. And happy Democrats lent them a helping hand. Wry suggestion from Democrat Lyndon Johnson: There ought to be a "great debate" between Nixon and Lodge...