Word: stumps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...daughter touring the wide-open spaces of western Kansas in a van, and the family team helped to offset any damage caused by his divorce. To fight the Watergate tag, Dole imported Connecticut's G.O.P. Senator Lowell Weicker-a member of Sam Ervin's committee-to stump for him. His most effective device was a TV commercial that showed a poster being obliterated by slung mud; gradually the mess dropped away and Dole's handsome face emerged...
...Nixon's offer of campaign help in 1974: "I haven't invited him to stump for me, but I wouldn't mind if Nixon flew over the state...
...ready four years from now." Connally does not want to become Ford's campaign manager, which he considers a job for a technician, not a statesman of his stature. Besides, he doubts Ford-Dole can win. Still, Connally will visit nearly 100 congressional districts in 72 days to stump for candidates for Governor and Congress. The same tactic was used successfully in the 1966 election by Richard Nixon, who rose from the bone yard by crisscrossing the country to speak for candidates and build up political credits. Connally's wheeler-dealer image and milk-fund taint, which...
Most had seen him only fleetingly before-perhaps at a campaign kaffeeklatsch or making a quick stump speech in the primaries. Only last week did hundreds of delegates get then-first close look at Candidate Carter as he moved from parties to meetings of state delegations to the convention hall on the climactic night. Some diehard opponents continued to resent what they feel is Carter's insensitivity to issues that burn them. But to the majority, he came across as more magnanimous than he had been during the primaries, and as capable and, perhaps most important, open-minded...
Other possibilities: Indiana Senator Birch Bayh, who is a liberal-labor favorite, but showed himself a shallow, inept candidate in the primaries; Jackson, who would draw Jewish support but was even more deadly on the stump than Bayh; and Maine's Senator Ed Muskie, who is a tested leader, but is seen as a failed candidate since his 1972 flop. Two men unlikely to be considered are Congressman Mo Udall, who pointedly pricked the usually controlled Carter temper the last couple of months, and California Governor Jerry Brown, who Carter staffers say has been flatly ruled...