Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deliver Humphrey's nominating and seconding speeches in order to show the broadest party unity. Chosen to nominate Humphrey was Hubert's junior Senate colleague from Minnesota, Eugene McCarthy, who had been led to believe that he himself might be tapped for second place on the national ticket. McCarthy got the assignment from White House Aide Walter Jenkins. He acceded reluctantly, and his speech was barely perfunctory in praise of Humphrey...
...final woebegone chorus of "Vote for Hubert Humphrey, he's your man and mine . . ." Once more, tears came to Humphrey's eyes. Next morning the Senator emerged from the Ruffner Hotel to take his leave of West Virginia. On his campaign bus there was a parking ticket...
Hardly had Johnson taken office last November when the Veep-guessing game began. From the very start, Humphrey ranked high, and little wonder. He would, after all, balance the ticket almost to perfection-Northerner Hubert with his pure liberalism and appeal to labor, along with Southwesterner Lyndon with his more conservative bent and appeal to the business community...
Morality v. Legality. That was just the way Lyndon Johnson wanted it: from where he stood, the South could only cause trouble. There was, for example, the case of the Alabama delegation: it had come to Convention Hall determined not to support the national Democratic ticket in November unless some of Governor George Wallace's segregationist notions were written into the party platform...
...election season, Lar Daly of Chicago puts on his Uncle Sam suit and runs for office on the America First ticket - any office, from the presidency on down. In 1959, when Firster Daly was a candidate in Chicago's mayoralty race, he learned that CBS had televised the other Daley, Mayor Richard, as he greeted a Latin American diplomat at the airport. Invoking Section 315 (a) of the Communications Act of 1934, Lar Daly demanded - and got - equal time on television to promote his home-canned candidacy...