Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lyndon Baines Johnson, a loyal son of Texas, holds the second spot on the Democratic ticket for one reason alone: the promise that he might bring the prodigal South back to the party it strayed from in 1952. Last week Johnson gathered up Lady Bird, 35 of his staffers, 30 reporters and 15,000 bright balloons aboard the 13-car L.B.J. Victory Special to fulfill that promise in a meandering, old-fashioned whistle-stop excursion that notched the Bible belt in a dozen places and drove deep into Dixie...
Johnson's campaign had two purposes: 1) to expose him to as many Southern voters as possible, and 2) to goad or lure the reluctant Southern politicians into action behind the national ticket. He was still sensitive that so many thought him a drag on the Democratic ticket, while Henry Cabot Lodge was a gain to the Republicans. Johnson shed all of his pre-convention pretense of being a Westerner, not a Southerner, campaigned as "the grandson of a Confederate soldier" (running, he often added, with a man who. despite his fortune, is "the grandson of a pore Irish...
...roast-beef dinner and a full serving of the old Harry in San Antonio. And Harry was steaming. "This Republican outfit doesn't know the definition of parity," he cried. "All the prices have gone down, down, down. And the damn farmers still vote the Republican ticket. They ought to have their heads examined...
Common reaction: "You're on the wrong ticket. We don't vote Republican." To which Bagwell replies: "Shake hands with me anyway, won't you?" A few men drop Bagwell's broadsides to the ground, but this year very few spit on them (an old trick that prevents the broadsides from being picked up and used again). "That's a good sign," says Bagwell. "Two years ago they dropped our pamphlets like snow." It is not uncommon for a worker to sidle up with a wink, fold back his lapel and expose a concealed Bagwell...
Barber announced also that HYRC members will participate in a rally for entire Republican state ticket in of the Commander Hotel next . John Volpe, gubernatorial candidate, heads the list of speakers...