Word: stumping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Regimented Herds. Indiana's Senator Vance Hartke, chairman of the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee, was so carried away that he contended that former President Dwight Eisenhower should stop campaigning because of the crisis. Ike, on the stump, made his position clear. "A foreign crisis must not become an excuse for silence or submission by us Republicans," he told Midwest airport crowds. "The people of America must not be reduced to the role of a regimented herd blindly confusing total silence with loyalty...
...three-star admiral in 1957, Anderson was named chief of staff to Pacific Fleet Commander Felix Stump. But in order to fulfill the old Navy tradition that an admiral's flag is never really earned until it has been flown at sea, Anderson asked for and got a reduction to two-star rank so that he could command a carrier division. He got the star back in 1959 when he took over command of the Sixth Fleet...
President Kennedy announced that he and Vice President Lyndon Johnson had canceled their remaining campaign trips, later ordered his entire Cabinet to do the same. The immediate assumption was that this would hurt the Democrats for whom they had planned to stump. Yet there was a supposition that the nation would want to unite behind its President-and perhaps behind his party as well. Again, went the figuring, the crisis seemed likely to strengthen incumbents of both parties in cases where their opponents have never been tested in high public office...
...family, he is a former state treasurer and G.O.P. state chairman, served on the Federal Maritime Board during the Eisenhower Administration. Morse got off to a late campaign start, is now running like the wind. Unander has been campaigning steadily for two years. Morse is an emotional, highly effective stump speaker, dedicated to the constant use of the first person singular. Unander is an improving platform performer, but he still has a long way to go to match Morse...
Double Dilemma. Some observers even challenged Kennedy's right to stump. "When he plays the political game straight," wrote the Minneapolis Tribune's Richard Wilson, "he tends to tarnish his prestige." In West Virginia, the Wheeling Intelligencer wished that "the motives which bring the President to this corner of the nation were less blatantly political." The Pittsburgh Press suggested that the nation's boss should have stayed home to mind the shop: "John F. Kennedy is the man who is responsible for making the decisions for our side which can mean peace...