Word: splits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kennedy immediately seized on the vote as an end to the idea that any bid by himself would be a party-wrecking, personal vendetta against Johnson-the rationale he had earlier used for staying out. Now he could say that the split was already there and the "disastrous, divisive policies" of the Johnson Administration were to blame. Yet Kennedy himself, by his constant criticism, had helped cause division in the first place, and was well aware of the Democrats' dissensions long before New Hampshire. It was the practical demonstration that mattered: the results of the primary showed as nothing...
Over the weekend, a platoon of Rockefeller volunteers from Oregon traveled to Manhattan bearing a petition of 35,000 signatures urging his candidacy. Even George Hinman, Rockefeller's principal adviser, who previously had cautioned the Governor to avoid all primaries lest he capsize his cause and split the party, admitted that he must now campaign hard in Oregon. Curiously silent on the issue, however, was Michigan's erstwhile presidential candidate, George Romney, who surprisingly declined to endorse Rockefeller after his own withdrawal. Last week at a Lansing, Mich., press conference, he again stood mute. Would George back Nelson...
Predictably, congressional reaction split along geographical and ideological lines, though many legislators were keeping an open mind. While Mahon voiced the sentiment of the hard core rural and Southern areas, New York Democratic Representative Richard McCarthy spoke for the urban sector. "It is my hope," said he, "that the historians will not be looking back at me and the rest of us and declare that we constituted the 'Nero Congress' which took this report and did nothing about...
...said that Kennedy's candidacy will split the anti-Vietnam vote and ensure President Johnson's re-nomination in August, but did not openly discourage the former Attorney General from entering the contest...
...canned tomato symbolizes the artificial split which man has created between "nature" and "culture." Man cooked meat, for example, because it stayed edible longer; the process had a rational benefit...