Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yoked. Ike's presence in Chicago, his ebullience and confidence, was just the right ticket for Dick Nixon. The President's moderating breakfast speech, his behind-the-door and over-the-phone talks with leaders, strengthened faint hearts, calmed hot tempers. The result was that Nixon could pick his own way past the Administration's record to follow the new lines he had laid out with Rockefeller...
...conservative message, including a hint of the conservative dream that today's political parties must some day be realigned into conservatives and liberals. He shot one low blow at the Democrats ("dedicated to the destruction of this country!"). Dramatically, he proclaimed that he was standing with the Republican ticket, but he made no bones about his differences with G.O.P. middle-of-the-roaders. "Now you conservatives and all Republicans, I'd like you to listen to this," he said. "We've had our chance, and I think the conservatives have made a splendid showing at this convention...
...Hyannisport, 15 miles away. That night, while Caroline Kennedy's tiny grey kitten swatted night bugs on the front stoop, Jack Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson held their first grand-strategy meeting since they parted company in Los Angeles, the victorious nominees on a strong and strange Democratic ticket...
Then Johnson took over, with some up-from-the-floor swipes at the Republicans: "The big difference between 1860 and 1960 for them is Lincoln. Jack Kennedy beat half the ticket [Lodge for the U.S. Senate] eight years ago. This time Jack is going the rest of the way with L.B.J." Asked whether he would honor Dick Nixon's request for weekend campaign breaks during the session, Johnson paraphrased a line he had used about Kennedy-before Los Angeles: "I haven't observed that it makes much difference to Mr. Nixon when the Senate is in session." Then...
Should there be a Nixon-Rockefeller ticket and should it lose the election, Rockefeller will have lost nothing; he would remain Governor of New York and would have gained enough party good will to be the almost certain odds-on choice for the G.O.P. presidential nomination in 1964?provided, of course, that he did not get into political trouble between times. Should a Nixon-Rockefeller ticket win, Rockefeller, of course, would not be the G.O.P. nominee in 1964. He would have lost the governorship of New York?which has not seemed to attract his talents lately anyway?but he would...