Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...belated Republican drive continued up to election day, the inches might add up to two or three additional Republican governorships (most likely: a victory by Republican Nelson Rockefeller over Democrat Averell Harriman in New York) and a substantial cutting of expected losses in the House...
...Angeles and San Francisco he aimed over the heads of California's feuding and fussing G.O.P. Gubernatorial Candidate Bill Knowland and G.O.P. Senatorial Candidate Goodwin Knight, hit the point that the G.O.P. national record and national leadership were the best reasons for Californians to vote Republican...
...loped toward the finish line in his high-stakes campaign to win New York's governorship, Republican Candidate Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller knew that he was winning sizable blocs of New York City's normally Democratic liberals away from Democrat Averell Harriman. He also was aware that New York liberals constitutionally have no use for Vice President Richard Nixon. Day before Nixon was due in Manhattan to boost the campaign of G.O.P. Senatorial Candidate Kenneth Keating and G.O.P. candidates for Congress, Rockefeller's campaign adviser, State Chairman L. Judson Morhouse, got Nixon on the phone in New England...
...Butler struck some huge sparks on ABC-TV's College News Conference. "Those in the South who are not deeply dedicated to the philosophies of the Democratic Party will have to go their own way," he snapped, "take political asylum where they can find it, either in the Republican Party or a third party." Within hours, the landscape was bright with rebel fireworks that would doubtless enliven Democratic politics down through the 1960 presidential campaign...
...Harry Truman in a desperate effort to get back some of the votes Harriman knew Orval Faubus was costing him. If Truman had been President, said Ave to the Harlem audience, he would have sent the paratroops to Little Rock in 24 hours rather than waiting three weeks as Republican Eisenhower did. "Is that right, Mr. President?" demanded Ave in one of those of-course lines. But Truman threw away the script, ducked behind the claim that he "wouldn't have had all this trouble." Said he: "I'm not reading anybody out of the Democratic Party...