Word: nixon
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...incumbents were re-elected (F.D.R. in 1944, Bush in 2004). Twice, the wars were not going well, and the incumbent party lost (Korea in 1952, with Harry Truman choosing not to run and Dwight Eisenhower beating Adlai Stevenson; and Vietnam in 1968, with Lyndon Johnson withdrawing and Richard Nixon beating Hubert Humphrey...
...wars aren't going well. So that's even better for the Democrats in 2008. Perhaps. But notice that in all four of the war elections, the more hawkish or more hawkish-seeming candidate won. In the three war elections since World War II, the Republican won (Ike, Nixon, Bush). And in the two war elections with no incumbent candidate (1952 and 1968), the winner, who came from the opposition party, had reassuring experience in dealing with wartime situations (Ike) or at least foreign policy challenges (former Vice President Nixon...
...sometimes violently—removed several hundred students who were occupying the building. Between 250 and 300 people were arrested in the raid, and nearly 75 students were injured.” It was amidst this tumultuous backdrop that Adams, the composer of operas such as “Nixon in China,” and “Dr. Atomic,” began to hone his creative abilities as well as gain a sense of self. ‘AN URGE TO REBEL’Despite being a native New Englander and sharing the name of another well...
...Nixon Campaign Treasurer: "Badly...
...concerns was that Woodward and Bernstein rarely stopped to eat. (My guys couldn't even sit through the whole film without a cigarette break.) But I was surprised by how they intuitively understood the political background behind the Watergate investigation. Not that many had heard of Watergate or the Nixon tapes, or understood the job of the Attorney General. What they understood, very clearly, was that the President of the United States had used the FBI and the CIA to spy on the opposition and stay in power...