Word: miller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suit and the shirt with French cuffs was back driving his Cadillac to his salmon-pink summer house on a bluff overlooking Lake Ontario. Behind him were two months of exhausting campaigning, a 6,000 mile trail that had led him into 148 cities in 40 states. William Edward Miller, 50, the bantam gut-fighter who had been put on the ticket "because he drives Lyndon Johnson nuts," had come home to roost, and not a day too soon to suit him. "The British have the right idea," he said. Presidential election campaigns have become "too long, too expensive...
...Miller should know. Initially, he had envisioned a month of talking to G.O.P. groups, binding up the post-convention wounds as only a former G.O.P. National Committee chairman with acquaintances throughout the party could do. Then an all-out campaign to woo independent and Democratic votes, backed up with a heavy nationwide TV coverage. Instead, Miller found himself on a weary treadmill, trying to explain the various positions taken by his standardbearer...
Percy has the same problem among non-Negro immigrant laborers. He has no bargaining power with which to woo these Democratic blocs. And Rep. Miller apparently blunted the "backlash" effect when he alienated every ethnic group in the Chicago area by demanding more restrictive immigration laws in a speech in nearby Gary, Ind. (Apparently he thought the O'Haras, Grabowskis, and Alfinis wanted their jobs protected against both Negroes and immigrants...
According to everyone except Dean Burch, William Miller, and Barry Goldwater, President Johnson will sweep to an unprecedented victory in today's election unless he runs afoul of some of the perplexing imponderables of the campaign. Will a significant, as yet hidden, conservative bloc creep from under the rocks to cast their ballots for the Republican candidate? Will Johnson devotees, their eyes glazed by astounding poll results, neglect to visit the voting booth and put down a mark for their man? Will moderate Republicans, fearful of giving Johnson too sizeable a mandate, vote instead for his opponent in a reverse...
...G.O.P.'s future with great concern. The Goldwater candidacy, he insists, "is incompatible with basic American principles," and he has given the national ticket a totally cold shoulder. While he will not hazard a prediction of the outcome of the Presidential election, he insists that "if Goldwater and Miller are defeated overwhelmingly, it is unquestionable that the liberals and moderates must assume party leadership...