Word: tunneys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senate, New York's liberal Republican Jacob Javits and the state's incoming Conservative James Buckley exchanged friendly banter, even though Javits had just challenged Buckley's right to join the Republican caucus. After he was sworn in, California Democrat John Tunney smilingly grasped the hand of Vice President Spiro Agnew, who had personally fought his election. A bipartisan ovation greeted the return of Minnesota Democrat Hubert Humphrey, whose eternal ebullience is still enjoyed by his longtime colleagues. Massachusetts Democrat Edward Kennedy, deposed from his job as majority whip only minutes before in a stunning upset, quietly beckoned...
...electing California's Governor and congressional delegation. Governor Ronald Reagan spent a minimum of $2,400,000 trying to increase his 1966 margin and carry Senator George Murphy in on his coattails. Murphy lost, but spent $1,500,000 of his own war chest trying. It took John Tunney $1,700,000 to unseat Murphy, while the unsuccessful Democratic gubernatorial nominee, Jess Unruh, was financed with $1,100,000. Candidates vying for California's 38 House seats spent $5,300,000 in both primaries and the general election...
...Chicago Seven as his co-chairman. By contrast, his opponent, Republican Senator Smith, ran a smear campaign and refused to reject the support of the John Birch Society. California dumped flamboyant ultra-conservative Max Rafferty and George Murphy in favor of Riles Wilson, a soft-spoken moderate, and John Tunney, who campaigned as a moderate liberal. In New York, Conservative James Buckley harped on social discontent, but in a bland, nonmalicious manner, while Charles Goodell lost votes with his outspoken liberalism. Edward Kennedy had himself photographed with hard hats, and Hubert Humphrey repudiated his former support of gun-control legislation...
...naturally gregarious, sometimes rumpled-looking Tunney (he once began a campaign day wearing jacket and pants from different colored suits) has shown flair for publicity. While other politicians walked the beach to demonstrate their concern for offshore pollution, he proved his by diving 175 ft. to the bottom of the Santa Barbara Channel and coming up with a handful of mud and a nosebleed...
...true mold had given their votes to the Republicans in 1968, the Administration bootlickers met ignominious defeat. And in California, a topsy-turvy state where currents and trends are so many and so strong, where San Jose had whipped the reactionary conservatives into their rabid finest, John Tunney beat George Murphy and Ronald Reagan won a far less than landslide victory...