Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arise. Should he be allowed to bring witnesses, a lawyer, a jury of peers, petitions, weeping mothers, and his constitutional rights? As one member of the Board put it, these suggestions become less and less far-fetched as the consequences of being thrown out of college become a certain ticket to the Army...
...McCarthy, who clearly dislikes Johnson, inclines to believe that he is not, in fact, one of Johnson's favorites. "I never felt that Johnson would choose me for his running-mate for the sake of having me around," McCarthy says, "but only because I might strengthen the ticket. After the Republicans nominated Goldwater, our ticket didn't need any strengthening...
Since 1964 McCarthy's hopes for a second-shot at the vice-presidential nomination have disappeared with the emergence of Robert Kennedy and Humphrey as the leading contenders for the presidential nomination. A Humphrey McCarthy (Minnesota-Minnesota) ticket is out of the question; a Kennedy-McCarthy slate appears no more plausible. McCarthy's close relations with Humphrey and Adlai Stevenson (he nominated Stevenson for President at the Democratic convention in 1960), have made an alliance with the Kennedys impossible--even assuming that an all-Catholic ticket were remotely feasible...
...week it was must reading for most politicians-and Republicans in particular. Sent by Michigan's Governor George Romney to Barry Goldwater after the G.O.P.'s disastrous 1964 showing, it explained in twelve lucid pages just why Romney had declined to support the party's presidential ticket. Its contents were a secret until the New York Times obtained and published a copy from sources whose identity remains a mystery. Highlights...
...G.O.P. Governors of New York and Arkansas, votes the way no other Rockefeller does. He is a Democrat-and a fledgling politician who has just won election to West Virginia's House of Delegates. Still, when their engagement was announced last week, they looked like a winning ticket...