Word: reals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wash" for both parties. No one likes to contemplate what would happen if Wallace won enough states on his own to deny either of the other candidates a clear majority of 270 votes in the Electoral College. Though this is still highly unlikely, Wallace nonetheless constitutes a very real threat to the stability of the electoral process and indeed the future of the two-party system. If he does prevent both Nixon and Humphrey from gaining a majority, he might bestow his electoral votes on his preferred candidate and claim that he picked the President...
...Nixon has made some moves that may prove to be mistakes-or that, at least, his opponents can exploit as mistakes. There is no sign, so far, that they are anywhere near important enough to destroy Nixon's commanding lead, but they are giving Hubert Humphrey his first real opportunity to try to build a cumulative attack on his Republican rival...
While organizations like Barr's and Tate's maintain a tenuous hold on power, the party's real strength has been slipping away. In the past six years, the Democrats have lost two gubernatorial elections and one U.S. Senate contest. While the Republicans have been fielding attractive candidates like William Scranton. Hugh Scott and Raymond Shafer, and backing them with unite campaigns, the Democrats have been wasting their energies in destructive primary contests...
...President Nguyen Van Thieu swept through Sai gon and the Vietnamese armed forces were ordered on full alert. All the night marish instability of 1960-65, with all its coups and coup attempts, seemed about to begin again. While the rumors eventually proved false, the scare was all too real...
...Thieu nipped a real coup in the bud? Or had he perhaps raised the specter of a coup to weed out men potentially dangerous to his regime? The U.S. mission dismissed the crisis as "a case of rumor feeding upon rumor." But the Americans in Saigon were troubled by the events, or nonevents, of the week. All summer, U.S. officials have been reporting home that the Vietnamese army and political climate have been improving. To make those reports stick, they have told the Vietnamese in no uncertain terms that one more coup will be the coup...