Word: racing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...avoid offending Dixie. Like Nixon, Humphrey enjoyed heavy Southern support for the nomination. But he gave the South little in return. He ignored a Southern list of seven proposed candidates for the vice-presidential nomination and selected the man he considered best qualified of those willing to make the race...
...times, McCarthy could be petty and vindictive. Robert Kennedy could never understand the apparent hatred McCarthy felt for him-an emotion that seemed to have deeper origins than Bobby's political sin of joining the race after New Hampshire. The bettereducated, McCarthy told an audience in Oregon, preferred him to Kennedy. "Kennedy plays softball," he said at another point. "I play baseball." His flair for the malicious aside showed again when he talked about Speechwriter Richard Goodwin, an early supporter who left him for Bobby, then returned after the assassination, staying on until the last ballot. "Dick Goodwin," said...
...giants can continue to reach specific accommodations, it will not prove that either is turning soft. Each respects the other's power. Each knows the price and the risks of an endless arms race and repeated confrontations. Thus each concedes to the other, however bitterly, a degree of latitude within its own sphere. The system is not ideal, and it is certainly not moral, but it has one unassailable virtue: so far, it has worked. Also, it can buy time for men like Alexander Dubcek, and others inside and outside the Communist domain, to continue striving, in some form...
...Robert Kennedy, who, as everyone had pointed out, would wait four more years-but then rushed into the race after McCarthy's victory. Not Lyndon Johnson, who, as practically everyone had" been betting, would run again-but who then announced his abdication and partial de-escalation in Viet Nam. (Everyone had learned to expect such sudden surprises from 1968, and from L.B.J., that till the last moment there was doubt if he really meant...
Stanford's student leaders were not pleased. They complained that they had not had any voice in the selection, and Student Body President Denis Hayes, who argued that Pitzer had "no recent experience with race relations or student relations," led a move for an unofficial student referendum on the appointment. It is not likely to come to much-especially if Stanford's students take the trouble to look up Pitzer's record at Rice. There he fought successfully to remove an admissions ban on Negro students from the trust agreement under which the university was founded...