Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thing I am very certain: Americans will never tolerate such interference in our election process. Woe to the politician who seeks to win by becoming a "Manchurian Candidate...
...most celebrated political prankster is Dick Tuck, a longtime California Democratic politician who has been unusually quiet this year. During Richard Nixon's 1962 campaign for Governor of California, Tuck donned a railman's cap and signaled the engineer of a Nixon train to pull out. Nixon, speaking at the rear, was in mid-sentence as he saw his crowd suddenly begin to recede. Tuck also filled some of Nixon's Chinese fortune cookies during the 1960 presidential campaign with slips saying "Kennedy will...
...recalled how Powell's secretary, affectionately known as "Little Bit," accompanied the old pol on his last trip and tried, unsuccessfully, to spirit away the shoeboxes before authorities discovered them. Wheat wound up with a favorite Powell quote:"There's only one thing worse than a defeated politician and that is a broke one"- a condition Powell steadfastly avoided. The church collection was taken up in shoeboxes...
Despite a series of blunders that would have finished off a less resilient politician, Barzel began an irreversible march to the top. In 1963, when an aging Konrad Adenauer finally decided to resign as Chancellor and toyed with the idea of taking the ceremonial post of federal President, Barzel prematurely backed Der Alte for the job before the old man had made up his mind (Adenauer never took the presidency). At the same time, Barzel pushed Ludwig Erhard as Chancellor, although Adenauer, who remained party chairman, did not want Erhard to succeed him. In his greatest miscalculation, Barzel backed himself...
Political dignitaries and celebrities began arriving. Father Robert Drinan of Newton, a new politics hero, received a huge ovation. Former House Speaker John McCormack of South Boston, on the other hand, an old school Irish politician who served for forty years in Congress, evoked literally no response...