Word: ticketing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...election year. It labels two men the most qualified of all to govern and lead the nation. It provides a platform that, even though frequently ignored, can indicate the party's direction. It can set a tone and a mood that either help or hurt its ticket...
Like everyone else, the Democratic politicians were watching Miami Beach -mostly to see how the ticket chosen by the Republicans would affect their prospects. The Democrats are bedeviled by the stubborn problems of the war abroad and strife at home, what appears to be a nationwide drift to the right, and an overwhelmingly unpopular Administration...
...think Nixon was a bit presumptuous, however, thinking that his own name can carry the ticket to victory alone. Agnew adds little charisma to the ticket" continued the business-suited...
...speakers who would bring honor to the Republican party without touching at all on the question of who should be nominated. To be sure, Barry Goldwater, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Mayor John V. Lindsay in their own ways indirectly supported their choices for the top spot on the ticket through what they said, but for the most part those first two days were uncontroversial, and insufferably boring. The television networks do well to cut into and out of speeches in a kind of on-the-spot editing (based on advanced copies of the text). Sitting in the Convention building...
...Collins Report, though supposedly a private study motivated purely by a desire to discover what sort of a man would add the most strength to a Nixon ticket, reached the some conclusions that Volpe has been trumpeting for some months now. Volpe's earlier attempts to convince Nixon of his own vote-getting value have been futile and it expected that the Collins study, despite its scientific appearance and statistical documentations, will fail also to impress Nixon and his king-makers...