Word: sponge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...right. Virginians not only voted 69% for Nixon in 1972, but also replaced popular moderate Democratic Senator William B. Spong Jr. with conservative Republican William L. Scott, leaving the congressional delegation with eight Republicans, three Democrats and one Independent...
...Richard Nixon won close to 70% of Virginia's presidential vote, and one result was an unexpected defeat for Moderate Democrat William B. Spong Jr., 52. Spong had led Republican William L Scoff, 57, for much of the campaign. One reason: Scott, a three-term Fairfax Congressman, was presumably so inept that the Washington Post stoned him for "unimpressive service" in the House and "shallow understanding" of the Senate...
Scott had friends, however. One lent him $200,000 for a last-minute media blitz. Scott challenged Spong to say which presidential candidate he backed; Spong was damaged politically when a newsman reported having heard him tell some students that he was for Senator McGovern...
Nixon easily took Virginia, the "Mother of Presidents," with over 60 per cent of the popular vote, and his showing may have helped Republican William Scott, who surprised incumbent Senator William Spong, a moderate Democrat, by winning with 52 per cent of the vote...
...than 4,000 antibusing marchers toted American flags and a coffin inscribed DEATH OF FREEDOM as they massed outside the state capitol to hear City Councilman Howard Carwile denounce progressive Governor Linwood Holton as "gutless, spineless, no good," a man who made him "think of euthanasia." The Rev. John Spong, the esteemed rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church and a cousin of Democratic U.S. Senator William Spong Jr., took to the pulpit last week to label Carwile's remarks as "the cheap shot of an insensitive politician." The councilman was unrepentant. Dismissing Spong as an "ecclesiastical lickspittle...