Word: stumpers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crank him up again." Having taken the lead too early, he has deliberately slowed the pace of his presidential campaign. But his supporters are convinced that once he begins campaigning, he will prove, as he has three times in Michigan, that he is a tireless, dynamic and nigh unbeatable stumper...
Poor Little Mexican. Gonzalez, a suave stumper who likes to drop tidbits from classical literature into his speeches, bore down heavily on his pocho (Mexican born in the U.S.) background, tried hard to represent himself as an underdog. It was a difficult ploy-especially in a district that has a large Mexican-American population and that hasn't sent a Republican to Congress since 1920-until Dwight Eisenhower arrived to stump for Goode. Then Gonzalez opened the tear ducts: "They brought down their big 50-megaton bomb to drop on this poor little Mexican...
...energetic stumper, Goldwater keeps rolling 18 to 20 hours a day, often piloting himself in a chartered Beechcraft. He shakes every hand in sight. He autographs copies of his bestselling Conscience of a Conservative (now in print: 103,000 hardbacks, 400,000 softbacks). He was the first nationally known Republican in history to campaign in Spartanburg, S.C. last month...