Word: republicanness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unfettered Team. Combined with the Republican vote, however, Wallace's showing underlined the electorate's biggest message to Washington: Americans want a change, although in the absence of a figure with a compelling program, their feelings were ambivalent. Hence they belatedly warmed to Humphrey's gutsy drive for an upset in such numbers as to make Election Night one of the most suspenseful in memory. Also, they were insufficiently moved by Nixon's wary campaign to give him a generous plurality. Finally, the candidates' failure to draw the issues very sharply does not allow...
Lowenstein, the Democratic-Liberal candidate for Congressman from Nassau Country's fifth district, was exhausted Tuesday. His clothes were rumpled, and his hair kept slipping down over his forehead. He was running against Mason L. Hampton Jr., a Republican-Conservative and often called "the Wallace of Nassau Country...
Hampton is a founder of New York's Conservative Party. He received the Republican endorsement as the result of a deal in which the Conservatives agreed to support the Republican candidate for District Attorney...
Incredibly, in a district registered more than three to two Republican, Lowenstein won by 4400 votes. Nobody knew that Tuesday night--the official returns didn't come in. But when, at 12:45 a.m., Eugene Nickerson, Nassau Country Executive, said, "I don't have the figures, but it's my understanding that we've won," the 2000 Lowenstein supporters in the room broke into hysterical, confetti-throwing cheers...
Help for Lincoln. Rowdies are hardly new to American politics. In the 1828 campaign, crowds castigated Andrew Jackson and his wife Rachel as bigamists because her divorce from her first husband was not final when they married. To forestall protesters in his bid for the Republican nomination in 1860, Abraham Lincoln was not above packing the galleries of the Chicago Wigwam with his cheering friends. Ulysses S. Grant's hopes of a third term as President were thwarted by pro-Garfield hecklers on the convention floor...