Word: nonpartisan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...climbing back to his nonpartisan perch, Lyndon waxed spiritual. "We know not what may be God's will," he said. "But his course is to do justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly. I would like to feel, as I leave this room and return to the lonely acres that are surrounded by a big, black iron fence, that whatever I do, wherever I go, wherever my decision may lead us, I will have your prayers and your support...
...respond to a sign asking him to shake hands, the second time to talk to a Catholic nun and a group of small children. The welcome, said the Warren Commission, was "tumultuous." For days, the city's officials and editorialists had exhorted the people to give a hearty, nonpartisan welcome to their President. They were still smarting from the bad publicity that Dallas had received a month earlier when a band of right-wingers jostled and spat at Adlai Stevenson...
...look great, the editorial endorsements are flowing into the Oval Room in great swatches (see PRESS). and he is positively euphoric about his prospects. For the present, he figures his best bet is to leave the obvious partisan politicking to Hubert Humphrey and to present himself as the responsible, nonpartisan man in the White House...
...rest of the cover-story team provided a considerable balance of sentiment. SPORT Researcher Geraldine Kirshenbaum was a baseball fan until she was twelve, but now she'd rather go skydiving. SPORT Writer Charles Parmiter has become judiciously nonpartisan, although he has to control certain anti-Yankee tendencies. On the other hand, Senior Editor George Daniels, a sometime Little League coach, is a dyed-in-the-stripes Yankee man who can tell you about the day he saw Babe Ruth hit a home...
Coattails. Though Barry had been a registered Republican in Democratic Arizona for a long time, his active political participation was little more than that of the average interested citizen. It was mostly as a civic duty that he ran in 1949 on a nonpartisan reform slate for the Phoenix city council. He won, helped set up a successful city-manager system and, among other things, was largely responsible for racial integration of the restaurant at the Phoenix airport. A year later, he managed the victorious gubernatorial campaign of his Republican friend Howard Pyle, and in 1952 he decided...