Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...garden ol petunias. All he had to do was flit over to the Democratic National Convention this month, pick up his nomination by acclamation, name his choice for vice-presidential candidate - and he was off and running. But last week, with the convention only four weeks off, Politician Johnson sensed trouble. He saw the possibility that he might lose control of the one big decision left to the convention - the choice of his running mate...
...Politician." In the Midwest, long a G.O.P. heartland, the people in the small towns and on the farms largely back Barry. There is also support surfacing in the cities. Racial feelings run deep and pro-Goldwater sentiment high in Cleveland, St. Louis, Gary, Chicago and Detroit, where much of the giant Democratic urban machinery has become rusty and undependable since 1960. Cook County Sheriff Richard Ogilvie, an able politician and one Republican who survived the 1962 election against Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley's legions, thinks the Daley juggernaut has lost a lot of steam, and predicts flatly...
Blaming Bobby. When someone asked about the John Birch Society, Barry retorted, "Cite me one example of extremism by the Birch Society." Barry was reminded that the society had adopted the thesis of its founder-president, Robert Welch, who wrote in his book, The Politician, that Dwight D. Eisenhower was either a "mere stooge" or was "consciously serving the Communist conspiracy...
...means entirely unjustified. Segments of the press have sometimes sounded as extremist as any Goldwater extremist. Thus Drew Pearson began a column last week with the observation: "The smell of fascism has been in the air at this convention." Joe Alsop, who opined last March that "no serious Republican politician, even of the most Neanderthal type, any longer takes Goldwater seriously," now declared it a "fact" that "many Goldwater enthusiasts are genuine fanatics, like the majority of his delegates...
Died. Hussein Ala, 81, Court Minister of Iran since 1957, one of the Shah's oldest and ablest advisers, a reform-minded, pro-West politician who won worldwide notice in March 1946 when he stood before the U.N. Security Council and called attention to the illegal Russian occupation of Iran's Azerbaijan Province, raised such a storm that the Reds withdrew in the face of world opinion; of pneumonia; in Teheran...