Word: raced
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both Sen. Gary Hart of Colorado and Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware brought top Senate experience, from foreign policy to justice. Then Hart slept his way into the mass media and out of the race. Biden barely made it into the media, until he plagiarized enough to be kicked out of the race...
...Albert J. Gore Jr. '69 of Tennessee entered the race with the most foreign policy experience of any candidate, sharp debating skills and an attractive television presence. Yet his regionalism, which handed him the Deep South Super Tuesday, slapped him into obscurity in the rest of the country. Ed Koch was virutally the only New Yorker who knew...
...lights race the University of Pennsylvania in New Haven this weekend in their last Ivy League race before the Sprints...
...also to Glenn Orenstein for his critique of Matthew Joseph's silly suggestion that Jesse Jackson is intrinsically barred from a presidential race. Jackson's campaign is constitutionally legitimate and is essentially a campaign to further political inclusion of weak and marginal strata, Blacks being prominent among them. Such presidential campaigns are hardly new in American politics. Furthermore, Jackson is hardly the only presidential candidate of significance who never held elected office as governor or congressman; neither Grant nor Eisenhower held these offices, and at the intellectual level they were boobs compared to Jackson...
...with a huge photo of the ex-President, announcing Nixon's appearance on the NBC News program Meet the Press for the first time in 20 years. Last week, Nixon spoke at the annual convention of the American Society of Newspaper Editors to give his predictions on the Presidential race. On Sunday, The New York Times Review of Books contained a review of Nixon's new book on the status of the superpowers...