Word: nixon
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...telephoned a number of friends among the other Republican Governors for their counsel and has met privately with Washington fund raisers and Republican high rollers, could reach a final decision later this month. One of the first to nudge Wilson toward a '96 run was an old mentor, Richard Nixon. Wilson entered politics as a 28-year-old advance man for Nixon. In April 1993, Wilson and Nixon met privately in the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. It was a clap on the back for the Governor, who at the time was trailing Brown in the polls by 20 points...
...election victory over Brown was a stunning display of a Wilson forte: big-bucks, no-frills, keep-it-simple campaigning. His campaign team of longtime loyalists is led by strategist George Gorton, a onetime youth activist for Nixon with a talent for framing issues and a fondness for Eastern spirituality. The machine is so well oiled that its media desk in Sacramento was able to monitor and systematically infiltrate call-in talk shows. "I have absolute respect for the Wilson team," groans Democratic strategist Darry Sragow. "I've lost to them three times...
...final shady irony, historian Herman Belz notes that President Richard Nixon--by virtue of his "decisive executive branch support for color-conscious policies"--was most responsible for the abandonment of the color-blind standard and the commitment of government to racial preferences, targets and set-asides...
...give the Senate majority leader a virtual lock on the critically-important New York primary that will deliver 102 GOP delegates one year from today. "Dole has this near obsession with recruiting governors," says TIME congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty. In a recent TIME interview, she adds, Dole said: "Richard Nixon used to say he'd trade you 10 senators for one governor, because the governors are on the ground." The New York primary could also build campaign momentum: it is closely followed next March by the contests in California (163 delegates) and Texas...
...second thing to know is that he's not afraid to upset very large apple carts. Richard Nixon's reported gripe to his counsel John Dean about the too-vigilant "Jew boys" over in the sec was aimed partly at Sporkin, who was dogging the rogue financier Robert Vesco for an illegal $200,000 contribution to Nixon's re-election campaign. Eventually Nixon's Attorney General John Mitchell pressured William Casey, then sec chairman and Sporkin's boss, to delay an investigation into Vesco's contribution until after Election Day. When Casey tried to lean on Sporkin, the latter resisted...