Word: southernism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Southern Drawl. Wallace's discomfort was understandable. He knew that Barry Goldwater lost countless votes in 1964 because he was considered a bomb rattler. Though he is all bluster and bombast on domestic issues and a 100% hawk on Viet Nam, he has barred nuclear weapons in Viet Nam. At the end of LeMay's press conference, Wallace jumped on reporters for even raising the matter, declaring that "General LeMay hasn't said anything about the use of nuclear weapons...
...head of the Strategic Air Command for nine years (1948-57) and Air Force Chief of Staff from 1961 to 1965, he can hardly be dismissed as a mere eccentric. As a native of Ohio and a resident of California, he gives Wallace's pitch less of a Southern drawl -and more appeal in both big states. As a lifelong Republican, he might induce some Goldwater conservatives to desert Nixon...
Even with 34 Senate seats being contested this year, it is virtually impossible for Democrats to lose numerical control of the Senate. But there is a good chance that conservative Republicans will win enough seats to join with Southern Democrats and deprive moderates and liberals of ideological control. In California and Iowa, contests will have considerable impact on the complexion of the Senate that convenes next January. In both, liberally oriented Democrats could win if they attract enough votes to withstand the trend to Nixon. A look at the two campaigns...
ARCHAIC laws and institutions are often dangerous-a truism that Americans are rediscovering in a rather special sense during the 1968 presidential campaign. They are doing so with the help of George Wallace. The Alabamian is gaining so many votes, says one happy Southern Congressman, that he is now as strong as "50 acres of horseradish." Other Congressmen are appalled at the possible result: the Wallace phenomenon may throw the election into the House of Representatives. The outcome could foil most voters' wishes and upset the two-party system in Congress. To House Majority Whip Hale Boggs, "the idea...
Predicting a House decision is obviously impossible at this point. Even if the Democrats retained control of a majority of the delegations, some individual Congressmen, under pressure from constituencies or conscience, might bolt the party. Many Southern Democrats, whether pro or anti-Wallace, might turn against the Administration leadership and vote the way their districts did-presumably for the Alabamian...