Word: surely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rumors that Nixon was going to pick a liberal as a running mate were everywhere. When a Miami paper printed a front-page story that it would be Oregon Senator Mark Hatfield, Rockefeller's and Reagan's men distributed 3,000 copies on the convention floor to make sure that no one missed the point. Thurmond and company denied the report, but the most effective disclaimer came from Nixon in private meetings with Southerners. "I won't do anything that would hurt development of the two-party system in the South," Nixon told them. "I won't take anybody that...
Therefore, if our concern for the starving children is to go beyond mere liberal reflexes, we must have the courage to denounce the the political brigandage of the secessionist elite. If our liberalism is to have a sure ethical footing in the Nigerian crisis, we must not allow our enthusiasm to spill over into a justification of secession...
Papousek feels sure of the Czechs' future goals. His people want to profit from the inter-action between socialism and democracy, combining the advantages of both. "And we want more freedom than we have had up to now. In fact, we want more freedom than Americans have...
...National Convention have trouble filling the time too. For both sessions on Monday and the one Tuesday night, they had to find a glittering cast of speakers who would bring honor to the Republican party without touching at all on the question of who should be nominated. To be sure, Barry Goldwater, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Mayor John V. Lindsay in their own ways indirectly supported their choices for the top spot on the ticket through what they said, but for the most part those first two days were uncontroversial, and insufferably boring. The television networks do well...
...knows for sure why Agnew is Nixon's choice. It was clearly not for anything he will add to the campaign--he is an unknown, and not a dynamic speaker. Agnew did help Nixon's chances for the nomination by giving up his favorite son status and supporting Nixon, but it is not likely that any deal was involved...