Word: nomi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wagner is fighting for his political future. If he loses this fight, he will still have a chance to serve a fourth term as mayor, but he would have little or no chance should he want the nomi nation for Governor in 1966, the only other office potentially open to him since Kennedy won the Senate seat. Nelson Rockefeller will probably run again, but the Democrats think he is distinctly beatable, and so the gubernatorial nomination looks worthwhile...
...certainly seemed to be front-page news, and that is just the way the New York Times handled it: EISENHOWER URGES LODGE TO PURSUE G.O.P. NOMI NATION. The story, under the byline of Washington Correspondent Felix Belair Jr., intimated that Ike had all but selected Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., now the U.S. Ambassador to Saigon, as his personal favorite for next year's Republican presidential nomination. Wrote Bel-air of Ike's sentiments: "He regards Mr. Lodge as one of the very few Republicans who could compete on equal terms with President Johnson on the para mount issue...
...Bureau Chief John Steele drove out to Gettysburg for a two-hour interview with an old friend, Dwight Eisenhower. Reporter Steele found the former President profoundly committed to the proposition that another Republican should move into the White House in 1965, and equally convinced that the contest for the nomi nation should be wide open...
...convention ought to be a serious conclave where the delegates meet "to consider who can best lead a party and the nation." Jack Kennedy, in his drive for the nomination, shaped his strategy to a newer concept: the idea that the business of the convention is to nomi nate the man who, eliciting the most popular support, winning the most primaries and drawing the most enthusiastic cheers, has shown himself to be the most politically glamorous candidate, the people's choice. Johnson, little known to the public, felt that he deserved the nomination because, more than any other Democratic hopeful...