Word: reagan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...talking about race," he told an audience in Rhode Island last week. "We're talking about anarchy. One reason we're gonna be elected President is because we're the only one that's talked out against this sort of thing." Ronald Reagan gets his loudest applause when he refers to the issue of crime in the streets. "We talk of sending a man to the moon," he observed in Alabama, "but we can't even send a man safely across the park...
...will get at least 700 on the first ballot, 33 more than needed for nomination. North Carolina, once counted as solid for Nixon, went soft, may go for a favorite son. In the Midwest, there were signs of a slight shift toward Nelson Rockefeller. In the South, Ronald Reagan was having a visible effect...
...Author Gore Vidal on actors in politics: "I made my contribution to the problem back in 1964, when I was casting the movie The Best Man, which dealt with two men running for the presidency. I offered a part to Ronald Reagan, who said he was not interested in a small part but that he was interested in playing one of the candidates for President. I then sent back word that I did not think Ronald Reagan would be credible as a national candidate. So much for my gift of prophecy...
Robert Kennedy nearly got his clothes torn off in Indiana and California. Middle-aged matrons in the Mountain States and suburbs of the South swoon whenever Ronald Reagan mounts the platform. George Wallace's appearance at the sikeningly plush Sheraton Boston Hotel resembled an old-style political revival. Nelson Rockefeller pulled thousands of Wall St. bankers and their secretaries from the ticker tapes to an hour-long rally in tropical heat. And even cool Eugene McCarthy has had to start kissing babies...
...Wallace, Reagan, Rockefeller, and McCarthy are not necessarily new politicians. But voters seem to think that, unlike Nixon and Humphrey, they aren't old-style...