Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blitzed New York City on radio and TV interviews, toured slums and allowed: "I regret not having started much earlier." His late candidacy aroused suspicions, especially in the McCarthy camp, that McGovern had actually entered the race to promote himself as a vice-presidential possibility on a Humphrey ticket. For the present, however, Humphrey is leaning more toward Sargent Shriver, New Jersey Governor Richard Hughes, Oklahoma Senator Fred Harris, former North Carolina Governor Terry Sanford, or San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto...
...question is still whether McCarthy would accept. "It's highly unlikely," said one McCarthy aide. "Gene conceivably could take No. 2 to save the country-but to save Hubert Humphrey?" Several members of McCarthy's staff would probably resign in disgust if the Senator joined the H.H.H. ticket; the reaction of his youthful followers would be apoplectic...
While memories of Miami Beach faded like a vacation tan, Rich ard Nixon and his staff spent most of their time last week ministering to G.O.P. moderates, who still smarted at the winner's choice of Spiro Agnew as No. 2 man on the ticket. On the surface, at least, Nixon's efforts seemed remarkably successful. There was plenty of lingering bitterness, particularly in the Rockefeller camp, and some veteran Republicans even muttered that they would rather vote Democratic or not at all than vote for Nixon. But in general, and certainly with the professionals, party unity remained...
Lindsay were the only prominent G.O.P. liberals to hedge support. In response to 40 questions from reporters, Lindsay could find not one good word to say about the G.O.P. ticket...
...Confederacy and the Border States nominated the Republican ticket, and will shape its campaign. The winds from Dixie make Hubert Humphrey the Democratic pacesetter and will similarly trim his sails into November. Thus, to the naked eye, the South appears to have risen again. A closer look does not quite bear out the more sweeping assumptions about Southern power, but Dixie has indisputably earned the attention it gets...