Word: re-electing
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...quite clear what Henry Kissinger's role will be in the upcoming campaign, but one thing is sure: the Committee to re-Elect the President isn't telling...
...friend's suggestion last week, Price Commission Chairman C. Jackson Grayson put through a telephone call to a key Republican campaign agency: the Committee to Re-Elect President Nixon. From the other end of the line, Grayson heard his own voice proclaiming that General Motors and Ford will not be allowed to raise prices on the 1973-model cars that they will put on sale later this month. Without his knowledge, G.O.P. campaign aides had taped the announcement at a press conference two hours earlier, and were playing excerpts over a telephone number that voters can call free...
...White House was keeping hands off. Its first priority-maybe its only priority-was to re-elect the President. That meant avoiding any significant fight. On liberal urging, Presidential Aide John Ehrlichman and Campaign Manager Clark MacGregor made last-minute attempts to work out a compromise, but the conservatives were too confident to budge. Nor was their confidence misplaced. After a brief floor debate, the liberal proposal lost by a margin of more than...
...that you have not already grabbed his offered ceasefire, which would cost you little and gain your people a rare respite from battle. There are, of course, some visceral reasons why you may be reluctant. Possibly you recoil at the very notion of a settlement that would help to re-elect the man who personally hurled his B-52s against your country. Moreover, as everyone acknowledges by now, you gave a lot more than you got at Geneva 18 years ago last week, when you agreed under pressure from the big powers to abandon your war (against the French, then...
...start in politics passing out leaflets for John Kennedy. Four years later he worked to help re-elect Lyndon Johnson. In 1968 he was out on the streets for Robert Kennedy. In this campaign, George McGovern was his man. Working out of shabby walk-up headquarters, he and other McGovern amateurs canvassed Brooklyn's 13th District to saturation, blanketed the neighborhoods from Kings Highway to Coney Island with pamphlets and, on New York's primary day last month, swept into party power, defeating one of New York's more redoubtable Democratic bosses in the process. So this...