Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...final week, the enameled confidence that had marked Nixon's staff from the first began to crack. In the final hours, it all but collapsed. From a virtually unassailable lead of 16 points over Hubert Humphrey in the mid-August Gallup poll, Nixon had declined to a scant two-point edge in both the Gallup and Harris surveys on the last week-end of the race. On Election Eve, Harris weighed in with a final poll that took into account the impact of the Viet Nam bombing pause proclaimed by Lyndon Johnson last week. In it-astonishingly-Humphrey...
...Nixon has promised to provide "fresh ideas and new men and new leadership" to end the war. He prides himself on his grasp of foreign policy and is expected to act pretty much as his own Secretary of State- after a thoroughgoing shakedown at Foggy Bottom. According to his staff, he will increase Government spending from the current annual level of $185 billion to $220 billion by the end of his four-year Administration. Defense spending would increase by $10 billion (to $87 billion), notwithstanding an anticipated halving of Viet Nam expenditures from the current $30 billion annual level...
...Leamington Hotel in Minneapolis at 2:30 a.m. on Nov. 6, the Vice President was racing neck and neck against Richard Nixon. Crucial states were still teetering. "It's a real Donnybrook," Humphrey declared with characteristic ebullience. Yet the grin was grim. Giving endless thanks to his staff, family and supporters, Humphrey spoke less like a man who still entertained hope than like one who was recounting a heroic foray that had failed...
...Bribe Needed. The Herald's ri val, the Miami News (circ. 94,000), came to a different conclusion. The News' editorial staff has long sought a way out of the shadow of its larger competitor...
...make restitution in a bad-check case your case will be dis missed on the first go-round. You wouldn't bribe anyone. It wouldn't be necessary." Moreover, the alleged ev idence against Gerstein also implicated three judges - all former members of Gerstein's staff. But at first neither Highsmith nor the Herald publicized the additional charges. Gerstein's ex planation was that they were so preposterous that the whole case - including the accusation against him - would have collapsed. The Herald did eventually publish them, explaining that it could not do so earlier for fear...