Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Johnson's electoral margin of 486 to 52 votes (assuming he loses Arizona's five) fell short of Franklin Roosevelt's record 523-to-8 victory over Alf Landon in 1936, but it was the second best in history. Moreover, when the final returns are tabulated, Johnson seems certain to be credited with the greatest popular-vote margin in U.S. history -some 61% of the record 70 mil- lion votes cast, and a plurality of some 15 million votes. In 1936, F.D.R. won 60.8% of the vote and had an 11,078,204-vote plurality...
...long been strongholds of Yankee conservatism; yet Johnson knocked them off consistently. Verona, Me., (pop. 435) went for Johnson 139 to 55-almost an exact reversal of its 1960 margin for Richard Nixon. Of Connecticut's 169 towns, Johnson won all but eleven -a feat unmatched even by Roosevelt. While conservative on economic and domestic matters, New Englanders tend to be international-minded-and Goldwater's trigger-happy image hurt him there. So did his confused stance on social security, particularly since it was so publicly aired by Fellow Republican Nelson Rockefeller in the New Hampshire primary...
There he was, a stolid figure in the rear of an open car, his eyes downcast, a study in dejection. He rode in dour silence to the Capitol while Presidentelect Franklin Roosevelt, sitting beside him, smiled that famous smile and waved to the cheering throngs...
Through the Roosevelt years, it was only the Faculty, the Law School, the GSAS and Radcliffe who put their faith in the Democrat. The rest of the University defeated "that man" soundly every time they had their chance, however vicariously. In the later terms, however, some of this FDR support was also found among commuters, Adams House men and Kirkland House...
...others: Theodore Roosevelt, 1906; Elihu Root, 1912; Woodrow Wilson, 1919; Charles G. Dawes, 1925; Frank B. Kellogg (Calvin Coolidge's Secretary of State), 1929; Nicholas Murray Butler and Jane Addams, 1931; Cordell Hull, 1945; Evangelist John R. Mott and Pacifist Emily G. Balch, 1946; Dr. Ralph Bunche, 1950; Gen. George C. Marshall...