Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Across New Hampshire during the next four weeks, nearly 2000 "neighborhood coordinators" are expected to urge the state's 87,000 Democrats and 127,000 Independents to write-in "Lyndon B. Johnson" on their March 12 presidential primary ballots...
...communicate this idea, and the people believe us. This is not heresy. It makes sense. They can talk about it," says Grizzard. The idea is that people in the neighborhood should watch out for each other and make each other more secure about the draft...
...neighborhood coordinators, the campaign brochure, and the widely-publicized and controversial "Johnson pledge card" are part of the "New Hampshire Citizens for Johnson" write-in campaign. It is attempting to hold the Granite State's 1968 National Democratic convention delegates to LBJ despite the challenge of Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy (D.-Minn.). The President's name is not permitted on the primary ballot because he hasn't announced he will be a candidate for re-election...
...obtain the pledges, Boutin decided personal contact "in a way never seen before" was needed. The neighborhood coordinators who are responsible for visiting 35 to 50 families each were conceived to meet the need. In addition to getting pledges, they are "responsible to see that the Democratic and Independent voters in this area go to the polls," will provide transportation to the polls, and a babysitting service...
Amidst the hoopla of a political convention, residents of Cambridge's model neighborhood began designing on Saturday the agency which will run the model cities program...