Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...backing Democrats for governor in Massachusetts and Vermont. But political virginity is not easily assaulted. In an editorial endorsing the Democrat Boutin for governor and Republicans for everything else, the Concord Monitor felt it necessary to maintain that "there is no moral or legal compulsion" to vote a straight ticket...
...which he sent to the newspapers, announcing his plans to seek the nomination. The Democrats, however, had already announced their support for another man, and feared a primary fight would weaken their chances beyond repair. They offered Meyer the rather dubious privilege of running for Congress on the Democratic ticket, and he accepted...
...mate seemed clever power politics at the time, but failed to stir any enthusiasm in the South, or anywhere else. Cabot Lodge, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, was Nixon's second choice-when Rockefeller would not take the job-but proved a first-rate one, strengthening the ticket's appeal, reinforcing its claim to superiority in foreign policy experience...
...fatalist and no stranger to tight spots. No spot could be tighter than the tense moment in the 1952 campaign when he was caught in the uproar over a Nixon trust fund and found not only Democrats but Dwight Eisenhower's lieutenants ready to throw him off the ticket. Completely on his own, he delivered his well-remembered nationwide TV speech in which he laid bare his personal finances and mentioned, in a plunge into bathos, that the only gift he ever had accepted was the little dog Checkers. The Checkers speech became a monument to political torn...