Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appeal is not entirely limited to the lower middle class, however. Wallace draws some support from propertied and professional people. Most of his contributions, officially estimated at $70,000 a day, come in small bills at rallies, at $25-a-plate dinners, and in checks through the mail. Affluent backers pay $500 and up to join Wallace "Patriots' Clubs" and lunch with the candidate when he comes to town. In Dallas last month, Wallace dined with such "plain folk" as Mrs. Nelson Bunker Hunt, daughter-in-law of Oil Billionaire H. L. Hunt; Paul Pewitt, who has a $100 million...
...would dearly like to know, though at the moment Nixon's lead appears so commanding that even a large Wallace vote may not affect the outcome. Certainly Nixon could count on most of the Southern states if Wallace had sat this year out. Certainly Humphrey could depend on union support in big industrial states if Wallace were not in the race. "Originally," says Al Cella, Humphrey's chairman in Massachusetts, "the assessment was that Wallace would not cause much harm because this is a 'Democratic' state. That view has changed. Humphrey is in very serious trouble here...
...Nixon appreciably. For one thing, it became clear that Hubert Humphrey's manful efforts to create a semblance of unity in the Democratic Party had failed in at least one notable instance. Minnesota's Senator Eugene McCarthy demanded that, in exchange for his backing, Humphrey promise to support a change of government in Saigon, reform the draft and overhaul Democratic Party machinery. Replied Humphrey: "I am not prone to start meeting conditions." While Lyndon Johnson made his first formal speech on the Vice President's behalf during the week, he was all but overshadowed once again...
Since the Phantoms will not be delivered until next year at the earliest, the chief immediate effect was political. The Israelis welcomed Johnson's move as a symbol of U.S. support in the face of a buildup of Arab forces. For the same reason, the Arabs reacted with fury. Still to be determined was how the sale would affect what a U.S. diplomat called a "small but precious momentum for peace" that has been building up at the United Nations...
...summer, U.S. officials have been reporting home that the Vietnamese army and political climate have been improving. To make those reports stick, they have told the Vietnamese in no uncertain terms that one more coup will be the coup de grâce as far as U.S. public support for the war is concerned...