Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hook. Johnson's unexpected presence on the Kennedy-Democratic ticket upset a basic assumption of Nixon's campaign strategy. To offset advantages that Kennedy's New England origin and Roman Catholicism will give him in the East, Nixon had hoped to win a clutch of electoral votes in the South, capturing at least the four states-Florida, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia-that Dwight Eisenhower carried in both 1952 and 1956. By dimming Nixon's prospects in the South, the Kennedy-Johnson ticket confronted him with a tough problem in electoral-vote arithmetic. Even if Nixon...
Nixon had been considering G.O.P. National Chairman Thruston B. Morton, U.S. Senator from Kentucky, as the vice-presidential prospect most likely to help the ticket in the Border States and the South. But when Johnson joined up with Kennedy, Morton's appeal in the South lost much of its value. Morton does not want the vice-presidential nomination anyway, was relieved when he heard the Johnson news on TV. "We're off the hook!" he yelled to his wife...
...handsome Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and widely known because of his televised battles with Soviet U.N. delegates. A New England patrician (TIME cover, Aug. 11, 1958), Lodge would have little farm-belt appeal, but he would add plenty of foreign policy luster to the ticket if the election fell in a time of international crisis...
...ticket to Tokyo had been bought by the Ikeda faction. But before he could board the plane, he was approached by a forceful hakoshi, or delegate rustler, from a rival faction, who persuaded him to swap his air ticket for a first-class train ride, "all meals paid for, and plenty of sake." But once aboard the train, the delegate fell in with a smooth-talking hakoshi of the Fujiyama faction, who persuaded him to descend for a night of pleasure in the resort town of Atami, 60 miles short of Tokyo. Before resuming the journey next day. the delegate...
Flocking in Cadillacs to the convention hall, the candidates bargained furiously to put together a stop-Ikeda ticket. But Ikeda was backed by two banks, a shipbuilder, the Nomura Securities Co. and much of the old Mitsui industrial combine, as well as by Premier Kishi. One rival, Party Vice President Bamboku Ohno, wailed: "I have locked up in a safe Kishi's written promise to make me Japan's next Premier." .Maybe he did. But Kishi stuck with Ikeda. At the last minute. Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fujiyama tossed Ikeda a block of 49 votes that had cost...