Word: matings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...platform, no ticket mate, no realistic hope of occupying the White House. Yet there he is, running for President with the approval of perhaps a fifth or more of the electorate-no fewer than 13.5 million adult Americans. Not since Theodore Roosevelt's Bull Moose Party emerged in 1912 has a third party so seriously challenged the two-party system. Not since 1825 has an election been decided by the House of Representatives, as this one possibly threatens to be. Yet, starting from the narrowest of bases, with a single stock speech and not one constructive proposal to offer...
...Governor of Maryland from a position of relative obscurity to the second spot on the Republican Party's tick et last month, Spiro Theodore Agnew reacted with becoming modesty. "Spiro Agnew," he told reporters in Miami Beach, word." By "is last not week, exactly a Nixon's running household mate was well on his way to making quite a name for himself. There was considerable debate, however, over what sort of name it was and how it would affect the G.O.P. ticket's chances in the 1968 presidential race...
Traditional Role. Richard Nixon's strategists had assigned Agnew the traditional aggressive role of the running mate, but they scarcely anticipated such thrusts. "I am more blunt than Mr. Nixon," the Governor explained. "I can't change. I'm that way." Agnew's way may, in fact, prove a political boon to the G.O.P. After his attack oh Humphrey, the initial speculation was that he had damaged the Republican cause. That feeling eventually gave way to another. In 1968, a year when a strongly conservative mood has gripped many voters (see box, page 22), such a note of toughness...
...those who cheered and hollered, it hardly mattered that Wallace had yet to put forth a platform-or even hint at his vice-presidential running mate. A. B. ("Happy") Chandler, the former Governor and Senator from Kentucky, was about to be anointed last week, but his relatively moderate record on race proved too much for key Wallace men. A press conference to announce the choice was put off, and Wallace said he would decide on a Veep "when the spirit moves me." Chandler, now 70, was undismayed. "I wouldn't change my position if I could," he said...
Almost from the outset, the collegiate arrangement proved troublesome. In the election of 1800, Democrat-Republican Thomas Jefferson drew the same number of electoral votes (73) as his vice-presidential running mate, Aaron Burr. The divided House took 36 ballots to resolve the deadlock and place Jefferson in office. The 12th Amendment, requiring separate electoral votes for the offices of President and Vice President, was adopted four years later. The system has not changed since...