Word: nebraska
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...walked down the corridor to his makeshift office. "You were great," said jubilant Bobby Kennedy, but Kennedyites sensed that Nixon had landed what they called an "emotional" punch in the exchange over Quemoy and Matsu. Said Jack: "Will somebody please get Jackie on the phone?" Richard Nixon, heading down Nebraska Avenue toward his Wesley Heights home, stopped at a traffic light, heard a motorist shout through the window: "You really clobbered him tonight." When he got home, one of his daughters met him at the door. "Daddy," cried she, "you did great!" A more impersonal reaction might have to wait...
...Nebraska: Republican and Protestant. Nixon...
...Nebraska Kennedy organization, listened silently to the complaints of the shock-headed young man on her right...
...campaign? Why weren't the volunteers working harder? What was wrong? Under Kennedy's crossexamination, Bob Conrad's temper suddenly snapped, and he jammed the accelerator in anger. "It's not as simple as that," he rasped. But before he could say much more, a Nebraska highway patrolman flashed him to a stop. Muttering his disgust, Conrad got out of the car to talk to the cop. Bobby Kennedy, his mind still zeroing in on politics, paid no attention. Slumping down in his seat, he turned his questions on Helen Abdouch...
Farewell, Nebraska. By the time the unhappy threesome reached the Lincoln airport (with only a warning for speeding), Bobby had wrung a promise from his companions to try harder to weld the diffident organizations together and win the day for the Democrats. But as his plane headed for Kansas City, Bob Kennedy reached a glum conclusion: Nebraska, like much of the farm belt, was sticking with the Republican Party. Even in the Democratic tenderloin of South Omaha, only 35 of the faithful had turned out to-hear him speak that morning; at Lincoln's Cornhusker Hotel there were just...