Word: rule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cold & Warm. Another emerging, and perturbing, pattern for the 1968 campaign is the prospect that violently hostile demonstrations will rule out the handshaking style of campaigning amid big crowds that Johnson likes. His secret journey to Dallas not only precluded large gatherings along his route but even took local lawmen by surprise. Police Chief Charles Batchelor received only one hour's warning from the Secret Service. Johnson intends to announce none of his trips in advance, will honor speechmaking invitations only at the last moment...
...former Vice President's cardinal rule has been to treat fellow Republicans as lovingly as an election year will allow. He praised Romney's vigor as a campaigner; he also did his bit to debunk the stalking-horse theory. Romney's withdrawal, he said, "was not designed to stop Nixon. It was designed to save Romney from a defeat...
...home. Nixon has also made some thoughtful statements on poverty here and abroad, on racial issues and other subjects that indicate he is developing new proposals for use when he considers the time right. Rockefeller in recent months has been studiously sticking to state affairs, venturing afield as a rule only in his capacity as chairman of the Republican Governors Association policy committee. Seven months ago, the committee put out a 60-point package on urban problems similar in some respects to the presidential riot commission's report last week...
After years of dictatorial rule over Illinois' Democratic apparat, Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley faced a potential party uprising as his organization's slate-making committee gathered to select candidates for Senator and Governor in this year's elections...
President Thieu discovered, though, that not everything could be accomplished by decree. He had asked the National Assembly for special powers to rule the country's economic sphere by fiat for one year. By a surprising vote of 85-10, the House of Representatives turned Thieu down. Explained one representative, Nguyen Van Nheiu: "Special powers lead to dictatorship." Thieu still has a chance to have his way if the Senate approves the measure and sends it back to the House. But if nothing else, the exchange demonstrated that the fledgling constitutional rule begun last fall amid such high hopes...