Word: strengthing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Disrupted Arithmetic. The Vice President's convention strength could be reckoned unbeatable, except that as many as 16 states face credentials challenges involving some 1,000 delegates-a record number in the party's history...
Though still confident of a first-ballot victory, Humphrey toured the Midwest and Northeast over the weekend to meet with party leaders and shore up his delegate strength. He delivered mild gibes at McCarthy, but concentrated most of his attacks on Nixon and the Republican nominee's Southern supporters. "Nixon called on the midnight of the South," said Humphrey. "I call on its dawn and high noon." On the same theme, Humphrey hopes to popularize the slogan "Clear it with Strom," suggesting that South Carolina's Strom Thurmond has veto power over Nixon's decisions. Meanwhile, Humphreyphobes...
...hopes on the South and the Border States, Nixon is concerned that George Wallace might win a great many conservative votes that might otherwise go Republican. But for the long run, Nixon tends to discount Wallace's appeal. By November 5, say hopeful Nixon thinkers, Wallace's strength will have dwindled from the 16% the polls currently give him (in a three-way race with Nixon and Hubert Humphrey) to no-more than 4% to 5%, the "hardcore" racists. "The rest," says one man at Mission Bay, "are people who are just upset at things in general...
...political and social change for nearly 20 years. While the Negro population has increased 20% in the eleven secessionist states since 1948, black voter registration has risen more than 500%, to an estimated 3,250,000 for this year's election. Industrialization and legislative reapportionment have given new strength to the cities and suburbs. The Republican Party is again a potent force; but it wears dramatically contrasting faces in different states, and has lost most of the Negro support that once formed its core. The Democrats meanwhile are being pulled apart by the opposing forces of reaction and moderation...
...ballistic missile system. The critics argue that both unnecessarily super-intensify an arms race that ought rather to be slowing down. On the other hand, some disarmament specialists agree with Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford, who maintains that developments like MIRV are necessary for the U.S. to "negotiate from strength, not weakness." The Soviets themselves are currently pushing ahead with an ABM system, their own as yet undeveloped MIRVs, an orbiting missile system, and a version of Polaris. Moscow and Washington have agreed to discuss limitations on all such weapons systems. Meanwhile, Russia's missile installations are being developed...