Word: namee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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George Wallace hoped that his presence in the 1968 elections would deny any candidate an Electoral College majority, leaving him with the decisive votes to name the next President. Before Election Day, according to the Gallup poll, 66% of the nation favored direct presidential elections. By December, the figure had jumped...
...three court sessions, only to face more virulent-and effective-opposition last year when Johnson selected him to succeed Earl Warren as Chief Justice. Partly because of conservative disgruntlement with Fortas' liberal record and partly because of Republican confidence that the G.O.P. would shortly be able to name the Chief Justice, the nomination bogged down in an acrimonious Senate filibuster. Johnson finally withdrew Fortas' name...
Without Fortas' knowledge, reports LIFE, Wolfson used the Justice's name in an attempt to stay out of prison. LIFE quotes a Government witness as saying that Fortas, while a member of the high court, had discussed the case against Wolfson during a visit to Wolfson's Florida horse farm in June 1966, and that Wolfson had used Fortas' name as reassurance to keep other conspirators from cooperating with Government prosecutors. LIFE did not charge, or claim to have any evidence, that Fortas had either helped Wolfson or been retained...
...those who cannot forget a face, there is something in the curly hair, the forthright blue eyes and the squared-off jaw to bring back nostalgic twinges. The name is familiar too. When Barry Morris Goldwater Jr., 30, showed off his proud mom and dad to jubilant California conservatives, it was Goldwater père's evocation of the 1964 right-wing crusade that stimulated the cheering section. "In your hearts," said Barry Sr., "you know we're right...
...bakeries and restaurants throughout the state, proved to be almost as rightward-thinking as Goldwater. Both candidates hit hard at campus turmoil and stressed law and order. The result was a contest devoid of issues. With both men rigorously ruling out smear tactics, the question became more one of name than of name-calling. Yet while Barry Jr. bragged unabashedly of being the "elder son of the Senator from Arizona," he did devote 18-hour workdays campaigning to making it to Congress...