Word: mckinleyism
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...William Henry Harrison . .. Died in office 1860 Abraham Lincoln .... Assassinated 1880 James A. Garfield ....Assassinated 1900 William McKinley .... Assassinated 1920 Warren G.Harding . . . Died in office 1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt . . . Died in office
...nation needed Lincoln; after Taft we needed a Wilson; and after Hoover we needed Franklin Roosevelt." Without saying where this put him, Kennedy riffled back again through history for Nixon's benefit. "The Republican nominee, of course, is a young man. But his approach is as old as McKinley. His party is the party of the past-the party of memory. His speeches are generalities from Poor Richard's Almanac ..." Part of the reason that Kennedy's daisy cutter misfired was that he and Nixon are known to have a genuine, longstanding respect for each other-both...
...coverage often centered largely on a shipboard struggle between a captain and the Havana Superintendent of Schools, the nation's newspapers lauded the Harvard effort and gave it wide publicity. The Cubans themselves increased publicity by visiting New York City, Philadelphia, and Washington, where they were received by President McKinley. The hastily-arranged experiment thus proved tremendously successful, and any latent opposition to summer education was quashed. 1900 confirmed the vacation session as a valuable adjunct to the winter terms...
...Washington, Monroe, Jackson, Polk, Buchanan, Johnson, Garfield, McKinley, Taft, Harding, both Roosevelts and Truman were...
Even with an extended campaign, the best man is not always selected (Clay, Webster and Greeley were all defeated by lesser statesmen). Nor is a razzle-dazzle road show a prerequisite to victory on Election Day: William McKinley, in 1896, and Warren G. Harding, in 1920, won easily with "front-porch" campaigns, letting the groups of voters and the politicians come to them. And Franklin Roosevelt used the pressures of wartime as a reason for limiting his campaign appearances outside Washington to a bare minimum...