Word: statesman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democrats, of course, have their own set of problems. They managed to achieve a degree of unity in October that seemed impossible immediately after their August convention. Yet in defeat they lack a single strong leader. Lyndon Johnson may achieve an elder statesman's status, but he can hardly expect to regain the trust of the party's most vital activists. Humphrey, in his concession statement, pledged to "dedicate myself to a vital Democratic Party and to continue to work in the cause of human rights, of peace and the betterment of man." Although his showing certainly assures...
...beat him, Wendell Willkie went on a global fact-finding mission for F.D.R. After losing the Democratic nomination to John F. Kennedy in 1 Adlai Stevenson gracefully became Kennedy's Ambassador to the U.N. Ex-President Herbert Hoover, rejected for a second term, rebounded to become an elder statesman whose services were often sought by the party that drove him out of office...
...STATESMAN. Our foreign policy must be designed to secure a just and lasting peace. This can best come about when nations deal with one an other on a basis of mutual trust and understanding. This must be coupled with complete frankness and determination as to objectives and courses of action...
Nixon won, but George McGovern successfuly bucked the Nixon breadbasket tide to gain re-election to the Senate. McGovern, the dovish Presidential Candidate in Chicago, was thought to be in trouble in his conservative homeland. By waging a hard campaign stressing his individualism ("courageous prairie statesman") and his seniority, he made up the difference to win with 54 per cent of the vote over 67-year-old Archie Gubbrud. Republican Frank Farrar won election to the governorship on Nixon's coattails...
...main streets in all 67 South Dakota counties. His sprightly wife Eleanor added her weight-all 91 lbs. of it. Though McGovern has made peace, of sorts, with Hubert Humphrey, he is not anxious to identify himself as a Democrat, his billboards identify him simply as a "Courageous Prairie Statesman." With a stake of nearly $100,000, two-thirds of it raised at a single fund-raising dinner featuring Ted Kennedy. McGovern is investing almost a third of his budget in a door-to-door canvass to woo back the voters he needs. A skillful debater, he put another third...