Word: senatore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The second time occurred in 1964, when Johnson dangled the vice-presidency before McCarthy (and Connecticut's Senator Thomas Dodd) before throwing it to Fellow Minnesotan Hubert Humphrey. Lyndon lavished praise on McCarthy, called him "the kind of man-as we say in the ranch country of Texas-who...
YOU DON'T HAVE TO SIGN ANYTHING TO VOTE FOR GENE MCCARTHY. As the balloting neared, L.B.J. loyalists began hitting below the belt, offending Hampshiremen's sense of fairness. When McCarthy supported "selective conscientious objection" to the draft, Senator Thomas Mclntyre described him as one who would "honor...
Another Dog's Bone. Bobby Kennedy's entry had McCarthy supporters furious. Growled Actor Newman: "It's a shame Kennedy chose to take a free ride on McCarthy's back." Bobby was called a "claim jumper" and a "cow-bird." Said a student: "Hawks are bad...
Cluttered Track. Before Kennedy took the plunge, he sent Brother Teddy, the Senator from Massachusetts, winging out to Wisconsin to inform McCarthy. Teddy reached Green Bay's Northland Hotel shortly after midnight, spent three-quarters of an hour with a drowsy, just-awakened McCarthy. Said the Minnesotan afterward "It...
The students, of course, had slogans of their own. Some McCarthy workers sported buttons reading "We Try Harder"-in Hebrew. Posters announced: "God Isn't Dead-He's Just Lonely-But He Might Commit Suicide March 12th. It's Up to You." That same sense of last...